This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Plato

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

Hugh Jackman

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Bill Frist

You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor.He who has mingled in the fray of dutythat the brave endure, must have made foes.If you have none, small is the work that you have done.You've hit no traitor on the hip.You've dashed no cup from perjured lip.You've never turned the wrong to right.You've been a coward in the fight.

Charles Mackay

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Wayne Dyer

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

Jason Kidd

We all have different paths in life. As in purpose, so is happiness. As our purposes differ, so do our roads to happiness differ, though we may have common grounds.

Ogwo David Emenike

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

John Burroughs

Love should feel like a hand sewn quilt made by grandma, wrapping you up on a cold winter morning.

Carroll Bryant

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Eugenio Montale