The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.
My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.
When you're a 'product' for a lot of people, they're only really after one thing, and so it's hard to completely let down your guard.
The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washington, we have to pay the price of guarding ourself, which is internal vigilance.
Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent looting or to guard hundreds of weapons dumps spread throughout the country.
98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.
At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!'
I think there's something in people where they often want to describe their personal experiences, but when it's regarding wealth, they're obviously very guarded.
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
[Deckard Shaw puts a grenade into a security guard's hands] Deckard Shaw: Hold this. [He shoves the man down and walks away as the grenade explodes]
John Coffey: [Just before the guards are attacked by Wild Bill while bringing him in the mile] Careful, careful...
Guard: [after lighting the signal fire] Now all of China knows you're here. Shan-Yu: [lights a flag on the fire] Perfect.
Laughing Guard: That's the trouble with ya New York dope fiends. Ya got a rotten attitude.
[a squad of archers aim at Shrek] Captain of Guards: Shall I give the order, my Lord? Lord Farquaad: No. I have a better idea...
