The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what itis. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and Isay, I think I might have written that.

Steven Wright

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Marian Anderson

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

David Hockney

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

Barbara de Angelis

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Norman Douglas

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Bob Dylan

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.

Ted Demme

The greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail, and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the publick; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are vehement and clamorous, only that they may be sooner hired to be silent.

Samuel Johnson

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair