When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

If one can, anyone can.If two can, you can, too!

Nancy I. Sanders

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Will Durant

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Norman McLaren

I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

Maya Angelou

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

Michael Weatherly

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

Anna Quindlen

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

Raymond Carver

When I dream, I am ageless.

Elizabeth Coatsworth

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!

Alice Englert

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.

Chuck Klosterman

Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

Barack Obama