Where do you think I'd be next week if I didn't know how to shout and holler and make the public take notice? I'd be poor and I'd probably be down in my home town, washing windows or running an elevator and saying

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Jim Jarmusch

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

Louis L. Mann

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Fred A. Allen

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Edward F. Halifax

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.

Taryn Manning

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Thomas Jefferson

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!

Shawn Johnson

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

Rick Perry

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Diablo Cody

I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats.

George Bernard Shaw

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

John Jay Chapman

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

Imre Lakatos