Sometimes things have to be broken and reformed to become truly beautiful.

Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.

Paul Klee

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Thomas Carlyle

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

George Jean Nathan

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Oscar Wilde

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

William Osler

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

Fantasia Barrino

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

Katherine Heigl

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

John Wooden

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

William Shakespeare

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Thomas F. Kennedy

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Howard Cosell