I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Will Rogers

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

KaThe Kollwitz

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Oscar Wilde

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Albert Low

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

Barbara Pletcher

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Rufus Sewell

You defeated me But you won't defeat me again Because you have grown all you can grow.... but I am still growing (about Mount Everest).

Edmund Hillary

Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire go up in a roar All recognition lost, burnt clean clean in the flame, the green dispersed, a living red, flame red, red as blood wakes on the ash--

William Carlos Williams, Burning

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

John Dewey

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante