Talent is only the starting point.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Doug Larson

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Jason Derulo

Be not afraid of greatness some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

Criss Jami

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Oscar Wilde

Caine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him.

V.S. Carnes

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Gunther Grass

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

Paul Dirac

Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions.

Spike Milligan

Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After

Samantha Sotto

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

P. J. O'Rourke

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

Carol Kane