A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

James C. Humes

I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.

Lady Gaga

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Oscar Wilde

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.

Stephen Richards

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Laurell K Hamilton

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

William Feather

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

Stephen Sprouse

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Stanley Marcus

It is the story I hoped to tell. It is the story that lies around the edges of the photograph, or at the end of the newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news come toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?

Sarah Blake

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E. B. White