Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. (Tori Amos)
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. (Cicero)
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. (Fred Hoyle)
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. (Vincent Van Gogh)
Merrill One time, I was at this party... and I was sitting on the couch with Amanda McKinney. She was just sitting there, looking beautiful. So, I lean in to kiss her, and I realize I have gum in my mouth. So, I turn to spit it out and put it in a paper cup. I turn back, and Amanda McKinney throws up all over herself. I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered. (Signs)
Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. (Johann von Goethe)
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over. (Richard Milhous Nixon)
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. (Samuel Johnson)
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. (Mary Catherine Bateson)
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
A man is measured by the size of things that anger him. (Geof Greenleaf)
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. (George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon)
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. (John Andrew Holmes)
There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them. (Emile Chartier)
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. (Arnold Glasgow)
The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved. (Publilius Syrus)
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. (William Shakespeare)
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. (C. S. Lewis)
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. (Alexander Pope)
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. (Oscar Wilde)