The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Agnes Repplier

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

Jose Ramos-Horta

If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.

Robert J. Ringer

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

Thomas Jefferson

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

John Desmond Bernal

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

Ang Lee

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Earl Warren

Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.

Jane Austen

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Eric Butterworth

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard...

William Shakespeare

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

David Livingstone