We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

Having never been in control of his own life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free.

Orson Scott Card

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.

Anita Shreve

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

Sean Connery

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

William Shakespeare

You have heard the story, havent you, about the man who was tarred and feathered and carried out of town on a rail? A man in the crowd asked him how he liked it. His reply was that if it was not for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk.

Abraham Lincoln

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

Michael Eisner

At my age flowers scare me.

George Burns

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Robert Thibodeau

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Thomas Jefferson

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.

George Murray

Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin