"The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it."

“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.”

“Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.”

Source : Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

“We have to make sure that a fair share of the tax revenues remain in our country.”

“If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.”

“If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.”

“In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts.”

“But nobody can run from their own demons.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.3, Faber & Faber

“Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living.”