I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Omar Khayyam

I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

Dinah Shore

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

Tony Campolo

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

Rebecca West

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

Sean O'Casey, Sunset and Evening

Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

Leo Tolstoy

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

Jay Leno

Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Terry Pratchett

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

Ben Irwin

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

Steven Curtis Chapman

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Ryan Tedder