Reply #1: I keep a list of quotes... here are some of them [View All]

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"Marin, under the streetlight, dancing by herself, is singing the same song somewhere. I KNOW. Is waiting for a car to stop, a star to fall, someone to change her LIFE." - The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

"I am trying here to say something about the despised, the defeated, the alienated. About death and disaster, about the wounded, the crippled, the helpless, the rootless, the dislocated. About finality. About the last ditch." -Dorothea Lange

"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. " - Langston Hughes

"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular."
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird


"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
-Andy Warhol

"Art is what you can get away with."
- Andy Warhol, In Art


"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters, 1952

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett (1936 - )

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
~ Billy Joel

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people.
They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.
~ James Taylor

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
They teach you there's a boundary line to music.
But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
~ Charlie Parker