Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Alexis Carrel
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
David Hume
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
Esther Dyson
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
Henry Ward Beecher
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
Barney Oliver
Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
John Lithgow
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Doug Coupland
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Max Beerbohm
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas B. Macaulay
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.
Judy Collins
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
Shane Leslie
Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van Beethoven
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.
Neil Jordan
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
Azar Nafisi
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
Jim Cooper
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
Alan Greenspan
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.
Elton Gallegly
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther.
Example is the best precept.
Aesop
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell
Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls.
Hilaire Belloc
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