"Music hath charm to soothe a savage beast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
"The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!"
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms."
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
"If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."
"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
"I've been real lucky about writing people songs, but a lot of times if I picked a song, the guy didn't want the song for himself. You had to use backwards psychology—I'd say this is a song for Muddy Waters if I wanted Howlin Wolf to do it because they seemed to have a little thing going on between them." Willie Dixon
"And I to my motorcycle
Parked like the soul of the junkyard
Restored, a bicycle fleshed
With power, and tore off
Up Highway 106 continually
Drunk on the wind in my mouth
Wringing the handlebar for speed
Wild to be wreckage forever."
James Dickey
"If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude, I hope to make you use your imagination." Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler
"When Warren Beatty called a girl up, it was usually to try to get her into the sack. but he called me to find out what kind of bologna I used. I just don't have what it takes, I guess. Raquel Welch has what it takes. She's so sexy and gorgeous, even I want to jump on her!" Suzanne Pleshette