Stratwitch: I will not take action against you, now. This is the first day here and there has been much stupidity and carelessness... on both sides!
Herr Kuhn: [to Bartlett] Squadron Leader Bartlett, if you escape again, and are captured, you will be SHOT! Herr Kuhn: [to Von Luger] Heil Hitler!
Carol Connelly: [Melvin enters the restaurant in his suit] You look so se-... um, you look great. You look great.
Helen: Have a great day, honey. Help customers, climb ladders... Bob: Bring bacon. Helen: All that jazz.
Diane Court: Nobody thinks it will work, do they? Lloyd Dobler: No. You just described every great success story.
Lester Burnham: [narrating] It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect.
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
Great future through ignorance often ends in great regret because God often times gives us what we need in a package we do not want.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!
Trust is the fundamental key that upholds the honor of great leadership, without it leadership becomes a status quo of great dis-service to the change your followers desire.
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
I find it sad that more Christian literature does not address miracles, and the possibility of demons in our midst. Jesus performed countless miracles in his life that were clearly discussed in the New Testament. And, he cast out demons. Why do some ...
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. I shall be a litterateur, at least, all my life; nor would I abandon the hopes which still lead me o...
Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my heart to Job's cry, or to ...
To return to antiquity [in literature]: that has been done. To return to the Middle Ages: that too has been done. Remains the present day. But the ground is shaky: so where can you set the foundations? An answer to this question must be found if one ...
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might see...
The man who takes up nothing but a newspaper, but reads it to think, to deduct conclusions from its premises, and form a judgment on its opinions, is more fitted for society than he, who having all the current literature and devoting his whole time t...
It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and...
