The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Donald Rumsfeld

Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,going in circles, mounting each other.Paris is the city of love,even for the birds.

Samantha Schutz

Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!

J.K. Rowling

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Voltaire

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device, It's just about a human being.

Jack Nicholson

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described --and will be, after our deaths --by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Gloria Steinem

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

Werner Erhard

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees.

Boris Marshalov

It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone.

Bryce Courtenay

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

William Gilmore Simms

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

M. Night Shyamalan