A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

Frank Delaney

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

Byron Dorgan

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

Rick Reilly

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Norman Cousins

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Natalie Wood

But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.

Jim Clyburn

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Mary Baker Eddy

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Joe E. Lewis

Action is transitory, a step, a blow,The motion of a muscle, this way or that,'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

William Wordsworth, The Borderer

Be the one, be worthy.

Elsie Chapman

I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.

Maurice Greene

I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.

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