I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don't do otherwise, why, then I'll have to do it myself.
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.
If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.
That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.
The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.