That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.

NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

O. J. Simpson

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Will Durant

I like to date schoolteachers. If you do something wrong, they make you do it over again.

Rodney Dangerfield

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

Sandra Lee

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

Louis de Bernieres

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

Andrew Murray

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

W. Edwards Deming

In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime.

Edgar Allan Poe

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

Tony Visconti

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Salman Rushdie