My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

Michael Phelps

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

Friedrich Nietzsche

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Sylvia Plath

There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch.

Ken Jennings

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Billy Corgan

Good is not good, when better is expected.

Thomas Fuller

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

Dr. David Schwartz

Gentlemen, my odds for success improve with each attempt.

John Nash

Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation

Abraham Lincoln

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

Thom Yorke

I don't want to go viral, I want to set hearts on fire.

Coco J. Ginger