The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.

Surfers have the most attitude.

Shaun White

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

George Orwell

But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it.

Ernest Hemingway

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

You only grow when you are alone.

Paul Newman

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

C.S. Lewis

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Thomas Szasz

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Harry S Truman

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

Bill Tilden

She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in the process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side o

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Francis Ford Coppola