I swam my brains out.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

Lisa Loeb

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

William Wycherley

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

Octavio Paz

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it -- because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

Colonel Harland Sanders

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education

Thomas Jefferson

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Mark Twain

My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.

Travis Barker

Tame your technology

Lee J. Colan, 107 Ways to Stick

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

John Green

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Stephen Gardiner

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Socrates

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it!

Steve Jobs