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.

Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Muhammad Ali

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Sharon Stone

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Jackie Gleason (1916-1987)

Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Voltaire (1694-1778)

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Lou Reed

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

David Carradine (1936-2009)

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Jack Nicholson

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Salman Rushdie

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Clint Eastwood

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

George Carlin (1937-2008)

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Chuck Berry

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

P.T. Barnum (1810-1891)

"Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!”

Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Keith Richards

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Marlon Brando (1924-2004)

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Don't find fault, find a remedy.