“I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow

if I fail, if I succeed at least I did as I believe.”

- Whitney Houston

“My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.”

-Whitney Houston

“You’re so eeeeeeeeeeeeeeasy on the eyes.”

- Shea Seger

“What’s past is prologue.”

- William Shakespeare

“There is no reason to fear the wind if your stack of hay is well tied”

- Irish proverb

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.”

 - Tom Stoppard

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”

- Madonna

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”

- Robert Stevenson for via @Phawaz

“I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now,

I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.”

- Anne Rice

“Do, What you’re going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.”

- Skitch Henderson

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A flower falls, even though we love it;

and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.”

- Dogen

“[Chorus]
This girl’s prepared for war
And as for love
Who knows what it’s good for
Except for crying
Yourself to sleep at night
And for blowing down
Your little heart”

- Bic Runga on “This Girl’s Prepared For War” from Belle.

“And in the end, the love you take

Is equal to the love you make…”

- The Beatles from “The End”

“Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say ’cause if you’re not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.”

- Ani DiFranco

“Red is obviously such a stimulating color, and it has so many connotations.”

- P.J. Harvey

“A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection,

it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you’re past it.”

- Doug Coupland

“It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is,

I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.”

- George Burns

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

- Henry Thoreau

“A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.” – Lady Gaga

“As a creative person, in all the different things that I’ve done or ways that I’ve found to express myself, I’ve consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It’s always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man — and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning.”

- Madonna

“Paintings are too hard. Machines have less problems. I’d like to be a machine. I think everybody should be a machine.”

- Andy Warhol

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“Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.”

- Mickey Spillane

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“Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds,

somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it. There.”

- Barbara Walters