One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

Hank Aaron

Not only is the self entwined in society it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Theodor Adorno

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

John Ruskin

Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I'm not against machines, as are some people who feel that the computer is leading us back into the jungle...I'm against machines only when the convenience they afford to some people is regarded as more important than the inconvenience they cause to all. In short, I don't think computers should wear the pants or make the decisions. They are deficient in humor, they are not intuitive, and they are not aware of the imponderables. The men who feed them seem to believe that everything is made out of ponderables, which isn't the case. I read a poem once that a computer had written, but didn't care much for it. It seemed to me I could write a better one myself, if I were to put my mind to it.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, Dear

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

Keith Richards

Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.

Lord Chesterfield

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

George Orwell

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Mark Twain

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant it was like they were smiling all over.

Byron Nelson

I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years.

David Cross

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

Ernest Hemingway