"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
— Bob Marley

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
— Albert Einstein

"I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland."
— Woody Allen

"Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny."
— Frank Zappa

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

"It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel."
— Woody Allen

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. "
— Barack Obama

"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
— Bob Dylan

"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."
— Bob Dylan

"you dont need a weather man to know which way the wind blows"
— Bob Dylan

"Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?"
— Kurt Cobain

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."
— Kurt Cobain

"There’s a paradox to most things in life. Acting is often dressing up in frocks and chasing your ego, but that doesn’t mean you don’t take it seriously."
— Colin Firth

"Would you like something to eat? Something to nibble? Apricots, soaked in honey? Quite why, no one knows, because it stops them tasting like apricots and makes them taste like honey... and if you wanted honey, you could just... buy honey. Instead of apricots. But nevertheless they're yours if you want them. "
— Hugh Grant, in Notting Hill

"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility."
— Billie Jean King

"This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed"
— Hugh Laurie (The Gun Seller)

"Work smart not hard"
— Dr. Greg House

"There is not a thin line between love and hate. There is actually a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every twenty feet between love and hate."
— Gregory House

"You can think I'm wrong, but that's no reason to quit thinking. "
— Dr. Gregory House

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent"
— Victor Hugo

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
— Arthur Conan Doyle

"Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree."
— Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones's Diary)

"Do you dance Mr. Darcy?
Not if I can help it."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
— Les Brown

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

"Algy: I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
"
— The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
(The Importance of Being Earnest)"
— Oscar Wilde

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can."
— Cary Grant

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

"On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays

1. A beginning ends what an end begins.

2. The despair of the blank page: it is so full.

3. In the head Art’s not democratic. I wait a long time to be a writer good enough even for myself.

4. The best time is stolen time.

5. All work is the avoidance of harder work.

6. When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

7. I envy music for being beyond words. But then, every word is beyond music.

8. Why would we write if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?

9. The poem in the quarterly is sure to fail within two lines: flaccid, rhythmless, hopelessly dutiful. But I read poets from strange languages with freedom and pleasure because I can believe in all that has been lost in translation. Though all works, all acts, all languages are already translation.

10. Writer: how books read each other.

11. Idolaters of the great need to believe that what they love cannot fail them, adorers of camp, kitsch, trash that they cannot fail what they love.

12. If I didn’t spend so much time writing, I’d know a lot more. But I wouldn’t know anything.

13. If you’re Larkin or Bishop, one book a decade is enough. If you’re not? More than enough.

14. Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity you make a new smear.

15. There are silences harder to take back than words.

16. Opacity gives way. Transparency is the mystery.

17. I need a much greater vocabulary to talk to you than to talk to myself.

18. Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

19. Believe stupid praise, deserve stupid criticism.

20. Writing a book is like doing a huge jigsaw puzzle, unendurably slow at first, almost self-propelled at the end. Actually, it’s more like doing a puzzle from a box in which several puzzles have been mixed. Starting out, you can’t tell whether a piece belongs to the puzzle at hand, or one you’ve already done, or will do in ten years, or will never do.

21. Minds go from intuition to articulation to self-defense, which is what they die of.

22. The dead are still writing. Every morning, somewhere, is a line, a passage, a whole book you are sure wasn’t there yesterday.

23. To feel an end is to discover that there had been a beginning. A parenthesis closes that we hadn’t realized was open).

24. There, all along, was what you wanted to say. But this is not what you wanted, is it, to have said it?"
— James Richardson

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"You want to know how two chemicals interact, do you ask them? No, they're going to lie through their lying little chemical teeth. Throw them in a beaker and apply heat."
— Dr. Gregory House

"Are you comparing me to God? I mean, it's great, but so you know, I've never made a tree."
— Dr. Gregory House

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you."
— A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

"Calvin (to Suzy)- You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!"
— Bill Watterson

"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."
— Ed Gardner

"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou