I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

Janis Ian

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

They that govern the most make the least noise.

John Selden

We interrogate the world by making.

Bill Burnett

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

Christina Aguilera

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

Ambrose Bierce

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Nicholson Baker

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Stevie Nicks

Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.

Shane Filan

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

Alanis Morissette