Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

Accord, n. Harmony.

Ambrose Bierce

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

Anna Paquin

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

Richard Adams

Invade me now, my ruthless friend,

Arthur C. Clarke, Rama Revealed

Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition that human beings habitually think. There is no more persistent superstition than this. Linn

Nicholas Murray Butler, The Revo

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

Pierre de Coubertin

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

Andrea Arnold

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

Little Richard

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Wendell Phillips

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

Rachel Stevens

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Dan Quayle

Give me your tired, your poor,

Emma Lazarus, Excerpted from a p