We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Milan Kundera

Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat.

Anton Chekhov

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego

Ambrose Bierce

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A ball player has got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.

Joe DiMaggio

I look like a geeky hacker, but I don't know anything about computers.

Justin Long

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

Lewis H. Lapham

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Willie Stargell

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Thomas Carlyle

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

Dennis Cardoza

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

John Green

I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.

Victoria Justice