But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Mao Zedong

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

Edward Hoagland

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Edward Blishen

The awakening has begun!

William Dempsey

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

Zoe Saldana

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard wordsbruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I understand you are doing The Sorcerer's Apprentice. I would love to do that for you. I will do it for nothing.

Leopold Stokowski

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Mark Twain

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Katharine Hepburn

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Mary A. Ward

I know I will die in a car crash.

Katie Price

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

Lindsey Graham