Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

Forerun thy peers, thy time, and let Thy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.

Alfred Tennyson

I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's.

Tony Levin

You shall hear how Hiawatha prayed and fasted in the forest,Not for greater skill in hunting,Not for greater craft in fishing,Not for triumphs in the battle,And renown among the warriors,But for profit of the people,For advantage of the nations.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The

Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.

Emile Hirsch

Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse

Connor George Serbin

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.

Thomas Carlyle

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

Henry Kravis

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

Anna Deavere Smith

In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Warren Mitchell

Quentin is very organic there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

David Carradine