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— Vladimir Nabokov"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.
— William H. Seward
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What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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