Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure eye

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!

The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, ' said Maxie.'I know how that feels, ' said Blue.'I think some Pharaoh had that carved on his tomb, ' Maxie added.'Yeah? Times don't change much, do they?

Becoming a failure requires no strength

Pressure only makes you sick. You won't get anything positive out of it.

Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

All things in the fulness of time

Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.

Your personal brand is a promise to your clients... a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!