People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

Willa Cather

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

J.K. Rowling

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Jim Bouton

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Michelle Obama

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

Walter Lippmann

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Ambrose Bierce

Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

Barrett Wendell

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.

Alfred Torrie

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Henry Ward Beecher

My strength was that I am more balanced and calmer than most other riders.

Miguel Indurain

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

Samuel Beckett

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

Bryant McGill