You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.

Al Jarreau

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Dweezil Zappa

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

Christian Nevell Bovee

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A. E. Housman

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Proverb

Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Ambrose Bierce

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

Alfred Molina

Mind the gap!

Neil Gaiman

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.

Jacques BeNigne Bossuet

Show me the path I must walk and do not let me stumble in the dark places that lie ahead.

George R.R. Martin

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Jean de la Bruyere