"I never joined the army for patriotic reasons."

“Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”

“So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you.”

“Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.”

“A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.”

“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.”

Source : Robert Harris (2010). “Archangel”, p.233, Random House

“You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.”