King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Jodi Picoult

There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.

John Steinbeck

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Thomas Carlyle

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.

Gwen Ifill

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Jacob Bronowski

Oh, the blues ain't nothing but a good woman feeling bad.

Georgia White

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hermann Hesse

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Diablo Cody

A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.

Allegra Versace

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Mike Tyson

Be the kind of person you would like to be with.

Source Unknown

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Franklin Pierce Adams