John Locke Quotes
He that thinks diversion may not lie in hard and painful labour, forgets the early rising, hard riding, heat, cold and hunger of huntsmen, which is yet known to be the constant recreation of men of the greatest condition.
Quotes to Explore
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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Men are now beginning their careers as directors by working on commercials - which, if one cares to speculate on it, may be almost a one-sentence résumé of the future of American motion pictures.
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No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.
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The six of us gathered at my house, and we walked to the polls. I'll never forget it. Not a Negro was on the streets, and when we got to the courthouse, the clerk said he wanted to talk with us. When we got into his office, some 15 or 20 armed white men surged in behind us - men I had grown up with, had played with.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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He that thinks diversion may not lie in hard and painful labour, forgets the early rising, hard riding, heat, cold and hunger of huntsmen, which is yet known to be the constant recreation of men of the greatest condition.
