Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows in what state the world is left. Should what thy sister reports prove true, much hath changed in the world." "By the way," Royce mentioned, "No one us...
I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it's important because, when we can be of service to others, it o...
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really ci...
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sove...
When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue of Liberty; it was the fireplugs in the street. These things that Jack Kirby had drawn. Or these cylindrical water towers on top of buildin...
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
Princess Leia: The cave is collapsing. Han Solo: This is no cave.
Luke: Watch that cross fire boys.
Luke: [in 1997 Special Edition only] This is it.
I have restaurants, bookshops... but it's not an empire, more... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same.
In the end, family is all we have, my dear. You’ll do well to remember that.
You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
Isn't it time to stop waiting for a partner with an already built empire and start looking for an ambitious partner to build an empire with?
My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
Darth Vader: All too easy.
[On the asteroid] Princess Leia: I have a bad feeling about this...
Darth Vader: Bring my shuttle.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, an...
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!