I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Garry Trudeau

No one man is superior to the game.

A Bartlett Giamatti

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

Mark Strand

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Tom Wilson

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

Aron Nimzowitsch

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu

Without love in you life, you have nothing.

Wynonna Judd

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.

William Shakespeare

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Samuel Johnson

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

Samuel Johnson

My hopes are so high, that your kiss might kill me.So won't you kill me, so I die happy.My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury,Or wear as jewelery, whichever you prefer.

Dashboard Confessional