Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.
I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.
That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
And freedom is what America means to the world.
And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Some kids are always getting into trouble or doing stuff, and I stay away from those types. I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack.