Interest Quote by John Darnielle

What happened was I was a songwriter on Quincy Jones' publishing company, Qwest, for two and a half years before I gave him the…

— Siedah Garrett

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins…

— Ahmet Ertegun

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

— Ahmet Ertegun

“The other thing I know now, is that we survive grief merely and surely by outlasting it. The ongoing fact of the narrative eclipses…

— Gail Caldwell

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

— Lance Armstrong

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

— Eric Alterman

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do,…

— John Green

To think of enduring to the end as ‘hanging in there,’ doing one’s duty relentlessly, is not inaccurate. Yet enduring to the end is…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of…

— Edward Hoagland

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families…

— Eric Alterman