It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

Roberto Benigni

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Joey Adams

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

Samuel Johnson

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Jose Marti

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Billy Graham

Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.

William Shakespeare

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Henry David Thoreau

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.French: La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

Paul Gillmor

I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.

Jerry Bruckheimer