"In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony."

“To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Dec 24, 2013

“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”

Source : "Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.

“I Love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire.”

Source : Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “I Love You”

“[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.”

Source : "The Global Search for Education: Art in Education" by C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

“We have a choice..To Live or To Exist.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 14, 2011

“As horrible as this sounds, I am a little vulnerable about appearances.”

Source : "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.”

Source : Winifred Holtby (2011). “Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance”, p.190, Hachette UK

“I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.”

Source : Source: postgradproblems.com