Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Douglas Adams

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Lisa Marie Presley

From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing &pound20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.

Julie Burchill

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

Clare Short

With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.

Gabrielle Reece

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

Bradley Denton

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common

William Nazlitt

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Jeremy Taylor

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Maynard James Keenan

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Simone Weil

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I bought a waterbed and found a guy at the bottom of it.

Rodney Dangerfield