Music for me, it demands full concentration.

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer -- but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

Scott Reed

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

Kerry Washington

You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.

Maurice Greene

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

Randy Travis

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Ernest Hemingway

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Ambrose Bierce

Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit.

Michael Bernard Beckwith

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Imelda Marcos

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

Thomas Malthus

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Brian W. Aldiss

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein