That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Mark Twain

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips.

Shannon Hoon

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

Raquel Welch

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

John Mica

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

Lysander Spooner

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

Francis Ford Coppola

I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.

Taylor Lautner

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw

Humility makes great men twice honorable

Benjamin Franklin

I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poison-mixers are they, whether they know it or not. Despisers of life are they, decaying and poisoned themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so let them go. Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died, and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing, and to esteem the entrails of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth... What is the greatest experience you can have? It is the hour of the great contempt. The hour when your happiness, too, arouses your disgust, and even your reason and your virtue.

Friedrich Nietzsche

My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong, You're not that strong. I don't belong here!

Alicia Witt