I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!

Anon.

I'd always wanted to work in the studio and experiment with sounds. Things that I'm really influenced by and that I love are like The Beatles and Radiohead, and all those records by bands whose music is really involved.

Regina Spektor

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.

Konrad Adenauer

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.

Kristen Stewart

Too many of us speak twice before we think

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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Robert Browning

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

Nellie Bly

He was a multimillionaire. Wanna know how he made all of his money? He designed the little diagrams that tell which way to put batteries in.

Steven Wright

See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

William Shakespeare

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

Helen Clark

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Alan Bennett

The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.

Stephen King