Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off.

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they're tired of is listening to that sound, the sound of the people who've given up.

I really miss wearing costumes and makeup.

I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

Eliminating hunger in America is doable, because we have the resources to do it.

I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.

The Tea Party movement is we the people who have been taxed enough already. I think that folks forget that this is not an organized effort; it is not an organized protest. What this is is mothers, fathers, grandparents, and what they are saying is: 'What are we going to pass along to our children? Is it going to be liberty, or debt and deficit?'

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.

I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.