When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

How I love David Bowie.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

America is another name for opportunity.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I ain’t never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called ‚Fingers Crossed,‘ which is on SoundCloud.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.