But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.

Tom Colicchio

I have plowed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me. And aren't I a woman?

Sojourner Truth

The most notable feature of a disturbance in your city last summer, was the hanging of some working people by other working people. It should never be so. The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds.

Abraham Lincoln

If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?

Jim Fiebig

Pity is treason.

Maximilien Robespierre

You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

Franz Kafka

It is easy to fly into a passionanybody can do thatbut to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right waythat is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.

Aristotle

I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

Madonna Ciccone

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

Eugene Delacroix

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.

Tony Visconti

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt