The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

Clarice Lispector

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?

Clyde Kluckhohn

My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

Gary Numan

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Azar Nafisi

I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed.

Tina M. Randolph

To live by medicine is to live horribly.

Carolus Linnaeus

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Cesare Pavese

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

John A. Shedd

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

George W. Bush

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Robert Kennedy

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Betty Greene

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

Norah Jones