There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.

Jane Austen

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

Willie Nelson

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

Ryan White

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Stephen King

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he's voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.

Peter Berg

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.

Sidney Poitier

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical he has no freedom.

Buddy Rich

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

James Russell Lowell

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

Paris Hilton

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination

Andre Gide