I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Willie Nelson

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language

Samuel Johnson

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.

Bobby Nichols

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.

James Wood

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Aristotle Onassis

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Albert Einstein

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

Daniel Radcliffe

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

Louis Aragon

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Leo Tolstoy

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

Sylvia Browne