No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Gustave Courbet

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Audre Lorde

Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windows...the displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcity...mimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

Jean Baudrillard

For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. stanza 3The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. stanza 15From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. stanza 22You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?stanza 36

Hilaire Belloc

The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

Jamie Foxx

We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it.

Terry Pratchett

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

Beatrice Webb

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Dorothea Brande

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

Mark Spitz