Sam Quotes
Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.
I can’t imagine anything being more disastrous to our country than if the dollar lost its reserve-currency status.
I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.
When you genuinely lose your illusions, you begin to marvel at things, because you don't have the answers any more.
The 'still, small voice' of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.
If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.
To really love a person completely is to come to a point where your stories are intertwined.
Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.
If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.
We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.
This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault.
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.
Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.
When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.
It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch.
I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
For five days, I had no sleep. None. I did not sleep. And the last day, the reason I lasted, I drank 20 Red Bulls, about 20 cups of coffee. I could not function.
The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
Because as a father of three kids, I know how important good seeds are for providing healthy food for my family.
If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.
It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.
I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
Al Davis is the kind of guy who would steal your eyes and then try to convince you that you looked better without them