Pastoral Resources

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

Acting is my first love.