Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any…

For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I love, and…

— Tony Blackburn

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

— Smokey Robinson

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I…

— Tommy Chong

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers…

— Susanna Clarke

If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for…

— Ken Robinson

Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was…

— Nick Hornby

I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my…

— Frederick Exley

We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and…

— N.D. Wilson

What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in…

— Carson McCullers

“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in…

— Peter Lynch

Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured…

— Don Rickles

You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You…

— Wilhelm Reich

There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books are activities…

— Jeanette Winterson

I worked more intensively hour after hour when I was starting out [writing]. More laboriously. I'd say quantity is important as well as quality,…

— Lydia Davis