I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

Hunter S. Thompson

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Mark Twain

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

Travis Barker

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

Peter Jackson

One time the power went out in my house and I had to use the flash on my camera to see my way around. I made a sandwich and took fifty pictures of my face. The neighbors thought there was lightning in my house.

Steven Wright

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Paulo Coelho

In future, Clarissa, he said, it might be wise to mention that you already have a man in your bed, to avoid such tedious situations.You invited him into bed? Simon demanded, looking shaken. Ridiculous, isn't it? said Jace. We would never have all fit.I didn't invite him into bed, Clary snapped. We were just kissing.Just kissing? Jace's tone mocked her with its false hurt. How swiftly you dismiss our love.

Cassandra Clare

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.

Abraham Lincoln

Envy is concealed admiration

Luckson Pierre

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Lao Tzu

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf

Oscar Wilde

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

Jessica Lange