All films are born free and equal.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire of life

It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return.

The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.

You put me in a race where there's a lot on the line, especially when people tell me 'you can't win', or 'you're too small', you tell me those things and I'll find a way to prove you wrong.

You don't want to get me started about apple martinis and the affect they have on my lovemaking. I might just throw you down and make some love to you right here and now.

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

I used to dream, and I used to vow; I wouldn't dream of it now.