If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

A symphony is no joke.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

We cling nervously to the melody but we dont handle it freely we dont really make anything new out of it we merely overload it.

Without craftsmanship inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Chaos is a condition of the mind not of the world.

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.

I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.

The rules of game shows limit stuff so much. I remember on 'Money From Strangers,' being in the van - not even performing - and there was a lawyer there the entire time. 'No, you can't give money for that. Yes, you can give money for that. That's a partial answer. That's a full answer.'

In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after.

I like to laugh and make people have fun.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so I had to choose between playing basketball or being in the musical. And I ended up playing basketball.

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.

Am I complaining about my deafness? No, I am not.

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

If Time travel were possible, the future would have already taught the present to teach the past how to do it.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.

People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.