'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
Rufus Wainwright
Recitation: by Male by Female
On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.
Jeffrey Tate
New YorkEdgeCome And GoGoNew
The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.
Robert Scoble
CarProblemWantRaceRace Car
When I look at the success of the Cisco Networking Academy program, which has reached more than 4.75 million people since 1997, I know it could have never achieved this scale without our partners. Together we provide the tools, equipment and training for our students and teachers.
John T. Chambers
SuccessTogetherTrainingPeople
I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me.
Steve Jones
MotherHomeGirlMeKindShe
So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.
Tracy K. Smith
LifePoetryThinkingI CanDistance
I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.
Rocky Marciano
BestFightFaceYouTrainPossible
Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.
Michael Moore
ControlGreedYouDarkPlaceHuman
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
Mira Nair
ConfidenceHeartChallengeElephant
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
Liz Phair
FamilyRock And RollDoneRockShame
Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!
Derek Luke
GodWifeNightDownBoyPersonal
Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.
Alice Ripley
WorkJobPastYouNiceSometimes
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
Lion Feuchtwanger
FactsSomeoneHumanityDevelopment
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