You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.
Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
