When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

Jimi Hendrix

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.

Gordon Getty

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

Shana Alexander

Science is always inquiring.

Thabo Mbeki

[Happily broken] arms unlocked. Eyes wide open.Eager. Torn apart. Heart explosive.Fingers composing [Happily broken].Come in, come in. I am ready. I am open.Happy to be open [Happily broken].

Coco J. Ginger

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

Stokely Carmichael

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Terry Pratchett

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

George Brett

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Louis C. K.

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

Ellen Page

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Albert Einstein