"The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written."

“Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear.”

“I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.”

Source : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

“Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?”

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

“Man has created death.”

“Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.”

“We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace has become docile and easily ruled. As all geldings in nature, their thoughts are not involved with the concerns of the future and their posterity, but only with the present toil and the next meal,”

“I circumnavigate the globe with a one-liner like latitude.”

“The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.”

Source : "Patti Page, singer of Tennessee Waltz, dies at 85", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2013.