A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.

Proverb

You have to sound sad first of all, then maybe later you can sound good.

Steve Lacy

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

Tina Turner

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

Sloane Crosley

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Aleksandr Pushkin

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Benjamin Franklin

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected.

Oscar Wilde

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

Marvin Hamlisch

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

History is the distillation of rumor.

Thomas Carlyle