My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Oscar Wilde

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Dobie Gillis

What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.

Alan Jackson

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

Rod Stewart

If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

William Faulkner

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

Eminem

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

Bayazid AlBistami

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Voltaire

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

B. R. Ambedkar

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Brian Eno