the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass. David Sanborn People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back. Bruce Hornsby Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. Graham Chapman Religion has a good place and it has its good people. Garry Marshall Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living. John Agyekum Kufuor The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. Petrarch You try to be moody when you're young and it had a go...

always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house. Dakota Fanning Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order. Maurice Denis I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. Robert Wyatt The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. Janis Ian Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. Eberhard Arnold

more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour. Colin Baker Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything. Paris Hilton I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started. Preston Sturges Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise. William Odom I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod. Charlotte Bunch Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. Benazir Bhutto Necessity never made a good bargain. Benjamin Franklin

to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. Edward Gibbon What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. Hugo Gernsback I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time. Dave Holland For when a child is born the mother also is born again. Gilbert Parker A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal. Abdelaziz Bouteflika It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. Sam Levenson I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. Martha Stewart

What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. John Berger It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability. Betty Cuthbert The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company. Pope John XXIII Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. James Russell Lowell The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. Matthew Henry Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot

be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. Richard Russo Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. Napoleon Bonaparte To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. Fanny Burney Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight. Aaron Sorkin If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win. Shelley Long It's important to e alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do. Jenifer Lewis We're planning on being married for a long, long time. Nick Lachey

confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion. Ken Starr There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them. Daniel Keys Moran We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold. John Buford Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. Charles Handy Marriage is the death of hope. Woody Allen Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H. L. Mencken I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was. Rebecca Loos

supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. George Will Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor. Bill Scott You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. Shirley Chisholm Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing. Dick Cavett If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. Lou Holtz I feel that my whole life is a contribution. Pete Seeger Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems. Gil Kane

three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us. Peter T. King These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries. Thomas Frank Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Albert Einstein There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. Mark Rydell Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. Frank Darabont Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. Omar N. Bradley Well, it was alleged that he was...

to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it. Gary Allan The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. Tom Allen If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me. Henry Fox Life's more amusing than we thought. Andrew Lang If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. Lawrence G. Lovasik The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin. Willem Dafoe

wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger. Buchi Emecheta What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? Michelangelo A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. Edmond Rostand If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today. Brad Henry You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. George Burns I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Buddha Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, und...

water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it. Michelle Rodriguez Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick. Henri Cartier-Bresson To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. Coventry Patmore As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything. Martin Yan James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally. Brian Austin Green A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opport...

men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. Lyndon B. Johnson Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry. Arthur Levitt An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. Joseph Conrad Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course. Julie Nixon Eisenhower In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful. Helena Christensen Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anythi...

the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness. John Strachan Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country. Peter Schuyler We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. Marcus Aurelius Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. Pervez Musharraf A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people. Mary Landrieu I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. Cat Stevens I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a ...

I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to. Drew Barrymore We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another. John le Carre I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. Bill Cosby Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? Tanith Lee The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me. Kate Capshaw Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. Edith Sitwell The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces th...