Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.

Yousuf Karsh

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Chris Robinson

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

William Blackstone

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

John Kricfalusi

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

Leonardo Sciascia

It is not a disaster to discover that you are not the person you assumed you were. To the contrary, it is the beginning of the end of disaster. Experiment: How you feel if you were neither a success or failure in life? How would you feel if you were neither popular nor unwanted?

Vernon Howard

Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover.

Stephen King

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken

Samuel Johnson

I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.

Samuel Goldwyn

If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same.

Stacy Hawkins Adams

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!

Robert Browning