You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought if you will a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom and we're winning.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way whether in material design or execution.

Every step and every movement of the multitude even in what are termed enlightened ages are made with equal blindness to the future and nations stumble upon establishments which are indeed the result of human action but not the execution of any human design.

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps starving them to death.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Those who govern having much business on their hands do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom but forced by the occasion.