Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out.… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share Image
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water. — Baron Bilimoria Karan Bilimoria Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express… — El-P Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday… — Charles Sheldon Copy Share Image
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
