It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.

Ryne Sandberg

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

Jodi Picoult

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Thomas Carlyle

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Maureen O'Hara

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

Michael Chang

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Jean Baudrillard

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Andrew Sullivan

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

William Shakespeare

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

Charles Kennedy

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Baruch Spinoza