Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Alexander Pope

Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broke by you.

John Green

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Brandon Boyd

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

Lope de Vega

So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

Patrick J. Adams

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Vernon Law

... it is quite funny really when you think that probably I would have married him if he'd been at all clever about it. But instead of putting it to me as a sensible business proposition he would drag in all this talk about love the whole time, and I simply can't bear those showerings of sentimentality. Otherwise I should most likely have married him ages ago.

Nancy Mitford

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

Vin Diesel

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Stevie Smith

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

William Shakespeare