Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Jodi Picoult

What's it to you if I love you?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Thomas Fuller

We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Samuel Johnson

Does not the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

Steven Wright

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

Charles Kuralt

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

Sigourney Weaver

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...

Evanescence

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

Tony Visconti

This is the trouble with all happiness - all of it is built on top of something that men want.

Chris Cleave

It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

David Baldacci