All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Woody Allen

I'm the git in the family.

Clive Owen

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

Vanessa Carlton

Applied properly, it can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

Christopher Paolini

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

Toby Young

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

William Shakespeare

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Walt Disney

Lolla-Wossiky is left like a White man then. Cut off from the land. Ground crunching underfoot. Branches snagging. Roots tripping. Animals running away.

Orson Scott Card

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Francis Bacon