Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Alice Cary

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself
every soul standeth single.

Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Bruce Lee (1940-1973)

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

Albert Camus (1913-1960)

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Muddy Waters (1913-1983)

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

Diana Ross

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Bob Hope (1903-2003)

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Bruce Cockburn

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm travelling toward light.

Walt Disney

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Keith Richards

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

Charles Simic

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Pierre Boulez

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Carl Jung (1875-1961)

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Bruce Springsteen

I always wanted my music to influence the life you
were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

Linda Lovelace (1949-2002)

If we don't generate a response,
the bags won't be as full at the
pantry

Wyatt Earp (1848-1929)

Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Bela Lugosi (1882-1956)

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't
know what might happen tomorrow.

Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000)

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

Mick Jagger

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Charlie Parker

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Boris Karloff

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

Michelangelo

Death and love are the two wings that bear
the good man to heaven.

Elvis Presley

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Amiri Baraka

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West,
with respectability and air conditioning.

Stephen Harper

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.