First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Robert E. Lee

I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

Jeff Bridges

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ.

Willie Aames

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

Source Unknown

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Samuel Johnson

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you. You could take your treasure with you when you traveled too, and in the mountains where we lived in Switzerland and Italy, until we found Schruns in the high valley in the Vorarlberg in Austria, there were always the books, so that you lived in the new world you had found, the snow and the forests and the glaciers and their winter problems and your high shelter in the Hotel Taube in the village in the day time, and at night you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you.

Ernest Hemingway

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

Charles Frazier

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

Fran Lebowitz

I don't have the best dating track record.

Lauren Conrad