The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

Guy Clark

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

Alicia Machado

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success.

Steve Maraboli

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

J.K. Rowling

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Andre Breton

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Rabbi Ben Azai

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Bob Dylan

People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

Roy Blount, Jr.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Edwin Louis Cole

If on the other hand we found even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read and reread it, who would notice, and object, if a single word were changed, then, however little we could see in it ourselves and however it was despised by our friends and colleagues, we should not date to put it beyond the pale.

C.S. Lewis