A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination; all compact.

William Shakespeare

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

Erykah Badu

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Thomas Love Peacock

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Gabrielle Union

Those who complain about the way the ball bounces are often the ones who dropped it.

Source Unknown

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

Jane Howard

(About sweeping)....What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

Terry Pratchett

The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.

Aesop

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

George Leigh Mallory

Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.

Ben Johnson

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Eleanor Roosevelt