Thomas Jefferson -- still surv

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

Jimmy Carr

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Isaac Taylor

Everybody in the world thought we couldn't do it. But we did, dammit.

Bill Koch, After winning the Ame

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Helen Hayes

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Ruth Benedict

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

Diane Lane

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Luciano Pavarotti

Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

Edmund Leach

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Katherine Anne Porter