Without needing told, without Jacob's lead, Akando dropped to his knees and lunged into the throne room of Christ.

It's okay to be hurt because what is pleasure without some pain.

There was something comforting about believing in things that didn’t exist.

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.

The intelligence of cinema-goers should be respected.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

I always cry at weddings, they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

He has many qualities as a prince, but he is not a surgeon.

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.