Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.

Lester Bangs

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

David R. Brower

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

Norah Vincent

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sir Philip Sidney

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only afterlife is what other people remember of you.

Craig Venter

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious

Kurt Vonnegut

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people before, they were run by creative people.

Enrique Iglesias

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

Roland Barthes

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

Rene Cassin

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

Max Baucus

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Rita Mae Brown