Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Virginia Woolf

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Bette Davis

Anybody who would like to travel as an archaeologist of mores and observe men instead of rocks could find an image of the century of Louis XV in some village in Provence, that of Louis XIV in Poitou, that of even more remote times in the far reaches of Brittany. Most of these cities have fallen from some splendor that historians, more preoccupied with dates than customs, no longer speak of, but whose memory lives on, such as in Brittany, where the national character scarcely accepts the forgetting of what this country is fundamentally about. . . All of these cities have their primitive character.

Honore de Balzac, B

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Benjamin Franklin

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.

Carl Sandburg

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

Dennis Wilson

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Godfrey Reggio

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

Placido Domingo

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Marcel Proust

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside.

Tyra Banks

A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Albert Camus

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Brian Eno