Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

Michelle Trachtenberg

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

Orson Scott Card

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

Francis Atterbury

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Sir Thomas Beecham

By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.

Dan Cruickshank

There is no index so sure as the voice.

Tancred

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

Danica McKellar

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

Michelle Bachelet

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

Justin Townes Earle

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

George Eliot

The Right hates minorities and the Left hates the country,

Michael Lipsey

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

E.M. Forster