That chemistry that we had [with Fred Savage] is very, very hard to find. We were lucky to have those 22 episodes [of The Grinder]. I'm unendingly proud of it.
Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him. And he would never let her go. . . even if she begged for her freedom.
Do not expect help. ' 'One should always hope. ' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
Science frees us in many ways. . . from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.
Man is naturally more disposed to beneficent than selfish actions. This we learn even from the history of savages. The domestic virtues have something in them so inviting and genial, and the public virtues of the citizen something so grand and inspiring, that even he who is barely uncorrupted, is seldom able to resist their charm.
With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.
Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
Praise Him, each savage furious beast That on His stores do daily feast; And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, Your weary knees to your Creator bow.
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.
Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.
Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.
You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.