Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.How would that be? Just how would that be?

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

Ice Cube

You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It's the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well.

Mehmet Oz

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Comte DeBussyRabutin

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Rick Moody

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

Kevin Spacey

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Joe Biden

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

Henry David Thoreau

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Emily Dickinson