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“I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.”
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“Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.”
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“I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.”
Source : William Melmoth (1805). “Fitzosborne's Letters on Several Subjects”, p.1
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“I should be able to express moral views on social issues. . . without being slandered, accused of hate speech, and told from those who preach ‘tolerance’ that I need to either bend my beliefs to THEIR moral standards or be silent when I’m in the public square.”
Source : "Kirk Cameron Says He Is a Victim of 'Hate Speech' and 'Slander' After He Calls Homosexuality 'Unnatural, Detrimental and Destructive' on National TV". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 07, 2012. 
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“I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.”
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“It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.”
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“And Johnny Manziel is only in a snickers commercial.”
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“It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.”
Source : "Vampire Weekend" by Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2013.
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“It's true that history seems denser than it really is.”
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“Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.”
