Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Eminem

The air is the only place free from prejudice.

Bessie Coleman

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

Evelyn Glennie

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Edmund Burke

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

David Copperfield

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

Maggie Stiefvater

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

Howard Barker

The man who said in 1899: Everything that can be invented has been invented - technically, wasn't he right at the time?

John Alejandro King, The Covert

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Albert Einstein

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

George Eliot