And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

Patanjali

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Citium Zeno

Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun.

Ziggy Marley

A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.

Dan Devine

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Emily Dickinson

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

Joe E. Louis, A Hard Road to Glo

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Naomi Wolf

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

Rowan D. Williams

We need to theorize the meaning of beauty in our lives so that we can educate for critical consciousness, talking through the issues: how we acquire and spend money, how we feel about beauty, what the place of beauty is in our lives when we lack material privilege and even basic resources for living, the meaning and significance of luxury, and the politics of envy.

Bell Hooks

I saw these terrible things,and took great part in them.

Virgil