How can you capture the sympathies of the audience unless you have a small man, fighting against a bigger one?

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes …

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

I have written the tale of our life For a sheltered people's mirth, In jesting guise - but ye are wise, And ye know what the jest is worth.

Young children simply aren't interested in Fermat. They just want to hear a story and they're not going to let you do anything else.