Min son, varför döljer du rädd din syn - Älvkungen, far, där i skogens bryn, älvkungen med krona och släp du väl ser? - Ett töcken, min son, och intet mer!

Vem rider så sent i stormens dån? En fader det är med sin späde son. Och gossen har det så gott på hans arm: den känns så fast, och hans famn är varm.

"Du väna barn, kom, följ mig åt! Av mig får du lära mång lek och låt. Av brokiga blommor står stranden full, min moder skall klä dig i skrudar av gull."

- Min far, min far, du hör väl ändå, vad älvakungen lovar mig få? - Var lugn, var lugn, min älskade pilt! i vissna löven susar det milt.

"Kom, fagra gosse, kom följ mig blott! Mina döttrar vårda dig ömt och gott. Mina döttrar, de svinga i ring var natt och vagga och söva dig in min skatt."

- Min far, min far, du ser då väl nog älvkungens döttrar i dyster skog? - Min son, min son, nu ser jag det gott: de gamla pilar skymta så grått.

- "Din fägring mig lockar, jag har dig så kär, jag tar dig med våld, om ej villig du är." - Min far, min far, han hårt i mig tar, älvkungen gjort mig så illa, far!

Sin häst han rysande sporrar i hast och håller det kvidande barnet fast. Sin gård omsider når han med nöd. Då låg i hans armar gossen död.

Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.

I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

My favorite drink is sake.

People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Everything happens for a reason although we may not understand it at the time if you hang in there all the pieces will eventually fall where they belong.

I have two hammocks one Mayan and one Guatemalan both family size because I like to lie in them perpendicular. When Im working on a character I lie in them and daydream. Theyre the best tools for working that I have.

One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.

Happiness is like a butterfly The more you chase it the more it will elude you but if you turn your attention to other things it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

There are already gay players in the NFL and have been for a while.

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Not only does Hollywood make money - it seems to make better movies during recessions. I'm sure a lot of studio executives wish we could have one every year.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. Whats good in that In any case I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War with the U.S. or any other country in the world.