Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

Nina LaCour

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

'We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Ernest Hemingway

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Ogden Nash

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Dorothea Brande

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Hamlin Garland

In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

Benjamin Franklin

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joseph Joubert

I feel the need, the need for speed.

tom cruise, top gun movie

Success doesn't come to you you go to it.

Marva Collins

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

Anon.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Mary Astell