My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band.

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

Idris Elba

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

William Blake

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

Holly Black

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other

Samuel Johnson

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

Beanie Sigel

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Christopher Dodd

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

Ellen DeGeneres

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

James A. Michener

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

Alvin Kernan

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Dejan Stojanovic

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Abraham Lincoln