Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

Anonymous

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

Sir Winston Churchill

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.

J.K. Rowling

Why do I keep thinking of her alluva sudden?! Especially when the only time my face gets red and my heart starts puonding...is when I see him! -Syaoran Li

CLAMP

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good enough never is.

Debbi Fields

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

Danny Kaye

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Dave Van Ronk

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

Ralph Marston

This much I knew and know: I was making myself hideously uncomfortable by not narrowing my attention to details of life which were immediately important, and by refusing to believe what my neighbors believed.

Kurt Vonnegut

Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.

Gary Ross