I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

Joe Namath

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

Vincent Gallo

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Orison Swett Marden

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Curtis Carlson

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.

Ayn Rand

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Taylor Swift

Like madness is the glory of life.

William Shakespeare

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Dean Inge

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper

Aristotle

I don't live to work; I work to live.

Noel Gallagher