If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Cesare Pavese

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

Larry Wilcox

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Kurt Cobain

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

Dierks Bentley

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

David Hume

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training. You can't be lackluster in training and concentrate in a meet.

Edwin Moses

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Albert Einstein

I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

Beyonce Knowles

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Massaru Ibuka

I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.

Nile Rodgers

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Henry Miller