"It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it."

“Out of many shared years. One life.”

Source : Richard Clarke Cabot (1915). “Prescriptions, to be Taken Immediately, to be Taken for Life: A Collection of Extracts from Dr. Richard C. Cabot's "What Men Live By," Selected by Edith Motter Lamb”

“College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can argue at another time whether football should occupy the same space on campus as those disciplines, but for now, it does. The critical point is that a coach is less concerned with preparing athletes for the next level than he is with molding them to fit a system that helps him win games, keep his job and, eventually, move on to a position with a more prestigious program.”

“I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.”

Source : Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.183, Macmillan

“When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.”

“For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.”

“me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.”

“I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.”

“America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.”