If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Susan Sontag

Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family.

George Bernard Shaw

I've always mistrusted that sort o' learning as leaves folks foolish and unreasonable about business.

George Eliot

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Chinese Proverb

I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.

Rebecca Johns

I do believe there are things that we desire that are not in the cards. But more often than not, when people have a desire for a relationship and it's not happening, there are probably issues to be resolved and issues people could work on that would ultimately end in that desire being fulfilled.

Henry Cloud

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

Source Unknown

I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor

The sky is no longer the limit.

Richard Milhous Nixon

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

Mos Def

Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.

Harry Mathews

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

Isaac Rosenberg