There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.

Cassandra Clare

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

Van Wyck Brooks, From a Writer's

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

LeBron James

I, for one, will not have insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.

Christopher Hitchens

I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

Gary Numan

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

Jacquetta Hawkes

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Theodore Roethke

Millions are idle, but it's comforting to know that most of them have jobs.

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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Joey Adams

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

Albert Einstein

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Trisha Goddard