The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

Quentin Tarantino

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.

Gutzkow

I don't like begging money from producers.

David Byrne

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

George Chapman

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Wallace Stevens

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.

Paula Deen

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

William Glasser

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

Mark Twain

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

Jim DeMint

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

Johnson

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

R. Kelly

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

David Amram