"Often it is fatal to live too long."
Jean Racine(12/22/1639 – 04/21/1699)
French writer
"When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence."
Thomas W. Higginson
"Believe me, this country [Florida] has been greatly overrated. One acre of our fine Tennessee land is worth a thousand here."
Rachel Donelson Jackson
"I shall have more to say when I am dead."
Edwin Arlington Robinson
"I wish her characters would talk a little less like the heroes and heroines of police reports."
George Eliot
"Everybody is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
Edgard Varese
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them."
"Lady Bird" Johnson
"White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there."
Ma Rainey
"All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."
Beatrix Potter
"I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention."
Diane Sawyer
"We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives."
Robin Gibb
"People accuse us of being nothing more than a disco band now, but they don't know what they're talking about. If you listen to our records, you'll find that there's dance music. But there are also ballads like 'More Than A Woman.' And there are some very beautiful, undanceable songs, too."
Maurice Gibb
"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."
Ralph Fiennes
"Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano."
Daryl F. Zanuck
"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."
Samuel Beckett
"As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion."
Butterfly McQueen
"I don't like saying, 'You're a punk and you're not.' There was a record out there called 'Ca Plane pour Moi' by Plastic Bertrand, right? And I guarantee you if I had to play it for you right now you'd go, 'Right! That is rockin!' Now, if you were to say to any sort of purist punk, 'This is a good punk record,' they'd get completely enraged. But Plastic Bertrand, whoever he was, compressed into that three minutes a bloody good record that will get any comatose person toe-tapping, you know what I mean? By purist rules, it's not allowed to even mention Plastic Bertrand. Yet, this record was probably a lot better than a lot of so-called punk records. "
Joe Strummer