Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

Dakota Fanning

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

Ralph Bunche

The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

William Cowper

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Patti Smith

Mysterious language is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a person is, the simpler the language he uses to express his thoughts.

Leo Tolstoy

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.

William Shakespeare

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Oscar Wilde

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

Bill Hybels

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

Arthur Keith