When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

J. Bartlett Brebner

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

Jerry Saltz

He who sees his life as a process of spiritual perfection does not fear external events.

Leo Tolstoy

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

Mark Twain

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

John Morley

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

Ambrose Bierce

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

Terrence Deal

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Xenophon

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

Michael Cunningham

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Doris Roberts

I hope that my story, I hope that my life is... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.

Iyanla Vanzant