I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

Jerry Saltz

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

Oscar Wilde

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Chris Martin

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Rob Sheffield

Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of what is already known. Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

Susan Sontag

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Jane Austen

Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins's Cool Sounds.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.

James Hansen

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Helen Rowland

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Maynard James Keenan