I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Rod Stewart

I felt, as I have often felt, that my failing the truth could have no bearing at all on the Truth itself, which could never conceivably be in any sense dependent on me or on anyone.

Marilynne Robinson

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Leon Trotsky

No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part.

Tiger Woods

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

Rick Snyder

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

Christian Bale

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

Justin Bieber

I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.

Rick Mercer

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

Angela Davis

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?

Aubrey Beardsley

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

I was at this restaurant. The sign said Breakfast Anytime. So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.

Steven Wright