The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

Jon Bon Jovi

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Robert Fitzgerald

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Samuel Johnson

In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors. p. 204.

Bertrand Russell

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Walt Disney

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Ludwig van Beethoven

In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

Pearl Buck, A Bridge for Passing

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.

Milan Kundera

We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

Jorge Luis Borges

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle

Plato

I want to be great, something special.

Sugar Ray Leonard

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Ronald Reagan