My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

Ted Danson

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

Robin Trower

'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

John Green

Your first love has no beginning or end. Your first love is not your first love, and it is not your last. It is just love. It is one with everything.

Nhat Hanh

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty. But the man who has always pinned all his hopes on the future and lived with his eyes fixed upon it, has nothing in the past as a comfort against the present's afflictions, for the past was nothing to him but a series of hastily experienced stages. What blinded him to himself was his expectation always to find further on the happiness he had so far missed. Now he is stopped in his tracks; from now on nothing remains behind or ahead of him to fix his gaze upon.

Emile Durkheim

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Richard Pryor

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Bertrand Russell

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Oscar Wilde

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Nothing else matters now that you love me.' - suicide note

Bauvard