Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

Jewel

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.

Bishop Robert South

There is today in the United States as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge

Ronald Reagan

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

Mitt Romney

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Diane Abbott

The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being mad except that it's quieter. If only you could mix them together, you'd end up with normal people.

Terry Pratchett

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

William J. Clinton

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Joe Adcock

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Chinese Proverb

iMac is next year's computer for ,299, not last year's computer for 99.

Steve Jobs

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing.

Nick Mason

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

Demetri Martin