Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?

Christian Bale

As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.

Joseph Addison

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.

Gustavo Dudamel

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

Tom Hanks

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Tom Hanks

Justice is achieved not in striving for justice, but with love.

Leo Tolstoy

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Don Van Vliet

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

Michael Kors

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

Terry Pratchett

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

A. R. Ammons

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle