If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

William James

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Hosea Ballou

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.

Enrico Fermi

Believe and achieve with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

William Irwin Thompson

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Jerry Saltz

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Julian Casablancas

There were a few 6th form girls that I got with when I was I the 6th form, they were really nice, so that was cool.

Charlie Simpson

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Anais Nin

There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

W. Clement Stone