Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

Andrew Bird

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Steffi Graf

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

Leslie Mann

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

Kristen Wiig

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Charles Dickens

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

Neil Gaiman

The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

Carol P. Christ

All the marvels of science and the gains of culture belong to the nation as a whole, and never again will man's brain and human genius be used for oppression and exploitation.

Vladimir Lenin

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca