I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the…

The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.…

— William Henry Pickering

A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen…

— Archibald Cox

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should…

— Jeff Tweedy

I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged…

— Henry David Thoreau

According to a recent Harvard study, $6 trillion, when you include the ongoing healthcare expenses for our wounded soldiers, which is the least they…

— Jill Stein

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been…

— Maude Royden

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

— Steve Jobs

If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify…

— Peter Cohan

I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work…

— Anne Hathaway

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

— William Gilmore Simms

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

— Plautus

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

— Steve Sheinkin

Beyond that is the fear that the United States will end up negotiating and agreeing to a deal with Iran. The Israelis do not…

— Trita Parsi

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the…

— Ma Rainey

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the…

— Anonymous