While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.

Steve Irwin

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

Jimi Hendrix

I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.

Bruce Willis

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about that now. I just want to do Gods will. And Hes allowed me to go up to the mountain. And Ive looked over, and Ive seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The moon looked like melted mozzarella to my bleary and blurry vision. Was I tired, intoxicated, or in love? Or was I sober, asleep, and alone??

Jarod Kintz

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

Victor Hugo

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Simon Van Booy

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.

Ambrose Bierce

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

Jerry Saltz

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Jonathan Miller

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

James Allen