It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple...

J.K. Rowling

If I tell you not to follow me, it ain't because I hate you, kiddo.I just don't want you feel dissapointed...when seeing the truth.

Toba Beta

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Adam Clarke

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Audre Lorde

Once the people begin to reason, all is lost

Voltaire

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Thomas Hobbes

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Steven Wright

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Tom Perrotta

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

Douglas Trumbull

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

Tony Campolo

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Douglas William Jerrold

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson