"I am dead to them, even though I once flowered."

-- Sylvia Plath

“For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.”
“Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy,... something to be happy and excited about.”
“I think musically, there's always the stuff you're into that you've always been into but every once in a while there's a new band that kind of stokes you out a little, at least for me.”
“He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders what memories she is rediscovering, what thoughts are catching in her mouth like the dust blown from unused textbooks. He wonders if she has buried any traces of herself under her floorboards. He wonders what those traces would be if she had. And he wonders again why he thinks about her so much when he knows so little to think about.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2012). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.”
“The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.”

Source : Forbes v. Cochrane and Cockburn, 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 159, 1824.
“I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.”
“Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.”

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