She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

Anna Friel

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

Trey Parker

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Jason Mraz

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

Thom Gunn

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

will.i.am

If you can't control your reproduction, you can't control your life.

Joycelyn Elders

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Vaclav Havel

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Jane Siberry

Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.

Fournier

Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

Henry David Thoreau

Usually I say I have no imagination.

Jose Padilha

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Art Buchwald