My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get mycar going really fast, and stick it out the window. I've beenarrested three times for practicing.

Steven Wright

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Marilyn Hacker

Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.

Neil Kendall

Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job.

Alison Sweeney

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Karl Von Clausewitz

I don't get involved in record label politics.

Leona Lewis

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Christopher Columbus

He knew her, and she knew him. He had no idea if the images he saw came from past or future, or both, but he knew her. Their souls were bound, had always been bound, and always would be. They were two with one soul between them, perfectly joined, perfectly fitted.

Ann Marston

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

Frank Shorter

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Ralph W. Stockman

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Leo Buscaglia