Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

Dolly Parton

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

Paul Getty

As you walk through forestsor the meadows of your mind,Stop and talk to those you fearGood friendships you may find

Stephen Cosgrove

I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.

Sharon Creech

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Natalie Clifford Barney

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive -- and it still informs other kinds of music.

David Byrne

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Richard Wright

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

Steve Maraboli

Death by starvation is slow.

Mary Austin

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

Vincent Kartheiser

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alexander Smith

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

Truman Capote