I'm the original.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

I'm the original.

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.

The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.

Nick Abraham and I had known each other from Ryerson University.

What is true belongs to me!

Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

No words can describe the personal liberation that heading seaward bestows upon me. In this aquatic realm, no man or woman is subject to the petty decrees of social bureaucracy.

I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Having something forbidden is exciting dont you agree

You make a little noise, and you can sell out your local hometown club. But then you drive an hour down the road to the next town, and there might be eight people there.

To men and women there falls the task of exploring truth with their reason, and in this their nobility consists.

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

Horses lend us the wings we lack.

If I could go anywhere in the world, that place would be home.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

If growing up is painful for the southern black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

We need more STEM grads, and we need to quit equipping our competitors.

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?