We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Everybody has something that chews them up and for me that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely even when you are.

In the Old Testament it says that if you have the power to do something good then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed you can have it and possess it but if you open your fingers in any way you can lose it just as quickly.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something or that you were forced to but actually whatever you do you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

What none of the critics positive or negative grasped was that 'The Searchers' was a different kind of Western something much darker and more disturbing than the usual fare.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music give people something that can change their lives.

When the media defines something you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.

Music is pretty much the lifestyle not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

Even though I'm retired for some years now I still have something positive to say to kids. And they still listen.

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.

Instead of yelling and spanking which don't work anyway I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game for instance. And when they do something good positive reinforcement and praise.

I think every time I go in a game I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

The nature of catastrophe is after all reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins destroys wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

That something extra I believe is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.