Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.
Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'
George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently free. It is an idea too many in government today forget.
The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.
All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.
Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.
If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.
As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.