All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Herbert Hoover

The first rule of venture capitalism should be Shoot the Inventor.

Sir Richard Storey

Country music is three chords and the truth.

Harlan Howard

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

Lindsey Buckingham

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

Kim Kardashian

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

Stephen Burt

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

Gore Vidal, Armageddon? (essay),

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

Peter Erskine

Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

John Goodman

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

Vik Muniz

Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Aldous Huxley