Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.

Catherynne M. Valente

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

Source Unknown

A day is only a day. But a life is only a life.

James Richardson

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.

Hubert Green

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Bill Vaughan

We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.

John Larkin

A woman can hide her love for 40 years, but her disgust and anger not for one day

Arab Proverb

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.

Robert Jordan

I know the path by heart, by heart- a funny expression, so true. My heart knows right where to go.

Cynthia Hand

So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the burning marl. Old wives' tales!There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE!(spoken by character Garcin) http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/hell/sart.html

JeanPaul Sartre, No Exit, 1945

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Fulton J. Sheen