No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

Maynard James Keenan

A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Pierre Burton

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Billy Joel

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Edward Thorndike

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.

Aleksa Palladino

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

Bruce Lee

Success doesn't suck.

Darius Rucker

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson

Love is either like misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. Or like thunder storms, soaking you through, and striking you with the pain of lightning.

Taylor E. Bennet

Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.

Orson Scott Card