When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

George Bernard Shaw

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.

Groucho Marx

Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Paracelsus

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Terry Pratchett

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Theodore Roosevelt

The superfluous is very necessary.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra May Harris

You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

Billy Corgan

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

Nat King Cole

Everything that gets born dies.

Morrie Schwartz

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Robert Browning

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Wallace Stevens