24124 Quotes

#1. The ancestor of every action is a thought

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. when the voters turned away to listen to the teachings of Democracy, the invariable result has been national disaster and humiliation and a retarding of progress.

George Washington Platt

#3. Musicians play music because you love ... I loved to play drums since I was five. It's all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They're not musicians; they're looking for the fame.

Peter Criss

#4. The personal opinions of the editors have no kind of weight in the eyes of the public: the only use of a journal is, that it imparts the knowledge of certain facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Carson McCullers

#6. We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

Mitch Albom

#7. The stars are so big,
The Earth is so small,

Stay as you are.

Marshall McLuhan

#8. Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

Richard Schickel