Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.

Duffy Daugherty

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Noel Coward

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

Erica Jong

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

Ernest Hemingway

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Claiborne Pell

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious.

Orson Scott Card

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Gail Porter

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Sir Richard Steele

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

Sarah Palin

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults!

Agnes Repplier, Books and Men, O

Men are lead by trifles.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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