Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Will Rogers

It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived.

Amanda Nuri

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

Michael Vick

Doc, every morning I look in the mirror and feel like barfing, what's wrong, he said I don't know but your eyesight is perfect.

Rodney Dangerfield

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The road to excellence is always under construction

Source Unknown

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.

Jerome P. Fleishman

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Charles James Fox

I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.

Dave Eggers

Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into cab, every runner along the river,every motorcycle coming and going.

Melissa Bank