Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invest itself in what seemed like no time at all.

Cassandra Clare

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.

Mike McCready

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Jonathan Swift

It's sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Robert Alexander Schumann

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Gore Vidal

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

Marc Wallice

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.

Neal Stephenson

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Alan Lakein

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Francis Wright

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Lucy Stone