- O, tată, în preajmă-ţi să vezi tu nu ştii? Sunt iele, crăiese, pe plaiuri pustii. - Iubite copile, privesc în zadar, Sunt surele sălcii, cu frunzetul rar...

Dar cine goneşte prin noapte şi vânt? Un tată călare cu fiul plăpând. În braţe îşi ţine copilul cuprins Şi braţul se strânge mai cald, într-adins.

- Obrazul, copile, de ce ţi-l fereşti? - O, tată, pe-al ielelor rege-l zăreşti? Tu nu-i vezi cununa şi coada de vrac? - Sunt neguri copile, ce-n vânt se desfac.

"O, dragă băiete, cu mine nu vii?... În jocuri voioase juca-vom zglobii! Flori multe, pestriţe, se-nşiră pe plaur, Iar maică-mea are veşminte de aur!"

- O, tată, o, tată, chiar el mi-a şoptit, Al ielelor rege mi-a făgăduit... - Te-alină, copile, ascultă-mi cuvântul, Prin frunze uscate doar freamătă vântul!

"Vrei, dragă băiete, cu mine să vii? Fecioarele mele cu drag te-or sluji, Fecioarele mele în noapte-or cânta, În dansuri şi jocuri te vor legăna!"

"Îmi placi, chipul tău mă aţâţă... Ehei! Te-oi lua dar cu sila, chiar dacă nu vrei!" - O, tată, acuma mă strânge-nzecit, Al ielelor rege nespus m-a rănit!

Părintele-n tremuri se-ntrece gonind, Mai strâns prinde-n braţe copilul gemând; Ajunge acasă de trudă învins, În braţele sale copilul s-a stins.

There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

When traders were able to earn a million dollars, of which base pay was $150,000 to $200,000 and the rest was bonus, they would go for it. Now if you're sitting there earning $600,000, you become less risk-seeking. And if you have less risk-seeking, the ability of the market to be incredibly volatile is increased.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?'

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted.

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager.

I see an insidious problem in the marketing of weddings as 'the happiest day of your life.' The pressure that is placed upon this event to be the alpha and omega of your entire existence makes it, I think, into a kind of nuptial New Year's Eve, and we all know how that usually turns out.

If there's an addiction in the Clinton family, it's to problem solving.

If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.

Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.

America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.

I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.

To a large extent, we're working hard to fulfill the consumer demand for Subway sandwiches.

The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

It's honestly true that money means nothing to me.

I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!