Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been -- what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal -- needs to be protected from people.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.

Phillip Hauge Abelson

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Oliver Goldsmith

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

Ivan Reitman

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful

Samuel Johnson

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

Francis H. Bradley

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Eric Idle

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Camille Anna Paglia

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

Samuel L. Jackson

With a family of six, there is always something to make, create and do together.

Heidi Klum

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Proverb

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus