My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

I'll live a lush life in some small dive.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

All music is beautiful.

You're in a mess, and in excess.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

Ever up and onward.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order to put the nation in order we must first put the family in order to put the family in order we must first cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts right.

I can't do anything in moderation.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine, so I have all the files I need. It also has a note-taking piece of software called OneNote, so all my notes are in digital form.

When we honor our flag we honor what we stand for as a Nation -- freedom, equality, justice, and hope.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here' guy, Nelly.

If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome.

I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.

If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes another stem cell. If the split is unequal, neurons form prematurely.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.