It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

Albert Camus

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

W.H. Auden

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Ray Bradbury

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Curtis Carlson

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

Steve Martin

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Kings have many ears and eyes.

Proverb

In dreams and love there are no impossibilities.

Source Unknown

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up.

Rene Cassin

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Mary Astell

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

Edward W. Howe