The surest test of discipline is its absence.
[Offering Elizabeth his coat before putting her in the tower] Arundel: Madam, you are cold. Elizabeth: I do not need your pity. Arundel: Accept it, then, for my sake. Elizabeth: Thank you. I shall not forget this kindness.
Young Elizabeth: [Will awakes, grabbing her wrist] It's ok. My name's Elizabeth Swann. Young Will: W-W-Will Turner. Young Elizabeth: I'm watching over you, Will.
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
People don't appreciate their intestines until something goes wrong. But I always hope that people gain a little appreciation for their guts.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the time Working Title and I had debated on whether to do Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. I'd always wanted to do Henry VIII. Like Elizabeth, I'd had this feeli...
Elizabeth: I had a dream about you last night. Will Turner: About me? Governor Swann: Elizabeth, is that entirely proper for you to c... Elizabeth: About the day we met. Do you remember?
Elizabeth Bennet: He looks miserable, poor soul. Charlotte Lucas: Miserable he may be, but poor he most certainly is not. Elizabeth Bennet: Tell me. Charlotte Lucas: 10,000 a year and he owns half of Derbyshire. Elizabeth Bennet: The miserable half?
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.
What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
Elizabeth Bennet: What a beautiful pianoforte. Georgiana Darcy: My brother gave it to me. He shouldn't have. Mr. Darcy: Yes, I should've. Georgiana Darcy: Oh, very well then. Mr. Darcy: Easily persuaded, is she not? Elizabeth Bennet: Your unfortunate...
Mr. Bennet: Lizzy, are you out of your senses? I thought you hated the man. Elizabeth Bennet: No, Papa. Mr. Bennet: He's rich, to be sure, and you will have more fine carriages than Jane. But will that make you happy? Elizabeth Bennet: Have you no ob...
Queen Elizabeth: [Using the name "Mrs. Johnson"] My husband is, um... well, he's required to speak publicly. Lionel Logue: Perhaps he should change jobs. Queen Elizabeth: He can't. Lionel Logue: Indentured servitude? Queen Elizabeth: Something of tha...
With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
