Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the developed countries.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.
The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.
We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
