'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.

Jarvis Cocker

A full mind is an empty bat.

Branch Rickey

Everything is important- that success is in the details.

Steve Jobs

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Laurence J. Peter

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Sarah Dessen

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Dave Winfield

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

Miroslav Vitous

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

Joseph De Maistre

And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.

Stan Dunn

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Henry Louis Gates