I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Marilyn vos Savant

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Ben Lindsey

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth. And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Thomas Gray

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

H. G. Wells

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

Steve Martin

I'm very inspired by past music.

Adam Lambert

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

Martin Scorsese

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

George Bernard Shaw

Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.

Bible

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

Vincent D'Onofrio

How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you

Martin Buber

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,'out of there.'

Elizabeth Pena