When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and

over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music. Randy Houser

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend. Akhenaton

I wept not, so to stone within I grew. Dante Alighieri

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time. Harold Acton

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it. Helmut Jahn

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have. Patricia Heaton

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant. John Reid

I play a nobody in Japan. Jackie Chan

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition. Ian Hislop

I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it. Claire Forlani