I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why then do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
John Steinbeck
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers but for the wide world's joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Carl Sandburg
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau
That's what music is entertainment. The more you put yourself into it the more of you comes out in it.
Kurt Cobain
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg
Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.
Christina Aguilera
I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study pursued under compulsion remains rooted in the memory.
Plato
