Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.
Billy Joel
Recitation: by Male by Female
My dad kicked me out of the house when I was 18. I was supposed to go to community college. I wasn't really into going because I wanted to do stand-up, and he felt I was wasting my time.
Jermaine Fowler
CommunityTimeCollegeMeHouseGo
Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.
Mel Torme
CareerNowThreeTrueTopRight
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
Max Beerbohm
PeopleBornLiftGoldenBallsHeavy
It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.
Robert Gottlieb
BeginningBookEndingEndMoments
I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.
Stephen Hawking
UniverseKnowWantNothingWhyThan
I first noticed my varicose veins when I was pregnant with my second child, and I'd always thought that it was something that affected older, inactive people. I looked at my lifestyle and thought, 'I can't be a candidate for this.' Eventually, the pain became something I couldn't ignore.
Summer Sanders
PainChildPeopleThoughtIgnore
I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look over my shoulder to check for a cougar or a wolf though, so sometimes it's not the most relaxing.
Ruth Ozeki
LiveBeautifulWolfLookRunOver
I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
Romesh Gunesekera
MoneyWritingBookYouNeverEarn
My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.
Monica
ChildrenMomentMeParentBetter
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.
Joshua Foer
InterestingSexFindEvolutionJokes
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges
DeathManKnowIgnorantDivine
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Dick Wolf
WomenOpportunityWomanMistakesBad
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