Be great or be gone

“Life is a shit sandwich. Eat it or starve.”

— David Briggs

“Bruce is still my friend. We don't talk much. We don't have to. He is great and in his own league. I'm not him…

— Neil Young

“I get back in the Continental and continue down the road to the cafe. Then I pull in and there's Larry Johnson's '57 Ford…

— Neil Young

Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the…

— Ben Stein

“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I am disappearing, maybe I'm already gone.”

— Jennifer Niven

I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally…

— Martin Sorrell

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I've tried and tried,…

— Brian Wilson

The amazing thing is that we live our lives with the hope that things will go right, that things will happen. And all along…

— Laurel Nakadate

They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem…

— Joni Mitchell

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when…

— Solomon Ortiz

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

— Miranda July

You're getting into some kind of shape, cop." Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."…

— J.R. Ward

“I notice when you’re gone. Or do I? How can I observe something that isn’t there?”

— Jarod Kintz

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have…

— Jodie Foster