If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

Imelda Marcos

Life is unfair.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

Tori Amos

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

Dennis Kucinich

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

Ernest Hemingway

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

Mike Rogers

I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.

Katarina Witt

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Louis Nizer

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

Archibald MacLeish