I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

Ignacy (Jan) Paderewski

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job – that just doesn’t make any sense to me. That can’t be the right answer.

Larry Page

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

B. C. Forbes

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

Thomas W. Higginson

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

John Milton

He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things.

Thomas Hardy

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Gaston Bachelard

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

Cassandra Clare

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.

Clarence E. Hodges

Jesus Christ turns life right-side-up, and heaven outside-in.

Carl F. H. Henry

To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.

Toba Beta

May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air.

Paul Cezanne, Letter to Emile Be