From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Jane Austen

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Brian Ferneyhough

I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.

Fred Ward

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

Emma Goldman

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Louis Kronenberger

To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.

Charles Caleb Colton

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

T.D. Jakes

They've had a long time to think,' Paran murmured. 'Sometimes, that's all there's needed. The heart of wisdom is tolerance. I think.

Steven Erikson

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.

Anon.