"Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone!"

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“What's well begun is half done.”

“I actually bought the argument that if we democratized Iraq, we could create a space for venting some of the stuff that's going on in the Middle East in these autocratic regimes that is expressing itself through jihadism, because it has nowhere else to express itself.”

“The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”

“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”

“It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.”

Source : "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

“To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.”

“One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.”

Source : "49ers take different path, fire play caller Raye" by David White, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2010.