Skip to main content

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others -

it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
Yo-Yo Ma

I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it.
Dick Dale

The most valuable insight on choosing whom to love is to be honest with yourself about the man standing before you.
Niecy Nash

If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life.
Mike Pence

Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.
Charlie Tahan

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
Takashi Murakami

Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
Beth Broderick

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.
Paul Arden

I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.
Tom Folsom

I'm proud of where I'm from. I'm proud of Long Island.
Kevin Connolly

It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.
Robin Givhan

Gemeoss