I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

I have a lot of respect for marriage.

Dominic Monaghan

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

Vicomte De Chateaubriand

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Terry Pratchett

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Frank Gifford

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Samuel Richardson

Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.

W. H. Auden

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of the laws of thermodynamics.

Terry Pratchett

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.

Tim O'Brien

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

J.K. Rowling

Happy is your Grace That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style

William Shakespeare

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

Elizabeth Edwards