I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Thomas Fuller

A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

William Shakespeare

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.

Peter Steele

We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.

Ed Markey

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Oscar Levant

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Francoise Sagan

We do not display greatness by going to one extreme, but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space. But perhaps this is only a sudden movement of the soul from one to the other extreme, and in fact it is ever at one point only, as in the case of a firebrand.

Blaise Pascal

I've been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Keanu Reeves

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Louis Pasteur

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

Jose Mourinho

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

Publilius Syrus