War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

In my opinion most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth be careful and stay positive.

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is in my view as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather parents husband elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale New York society woman best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

As parents grandparents uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

We talk of our mastery of nature which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves first to her ways.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves chearful meadows and high distant forests which in grand order presented themselves to view.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate very simple and emotional about that music.

Country music is still your grandpa's music but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week double features second run.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody along with Vincent Price who I celebrate and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released and in the grand scheme of things that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

Unlike my grandfather or my brother I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.