Mike Dillard Quotes

#1. When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

Etta James

#2. I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

Aidan Gillen

#3. I travel a lot, but I don't come away with new inspiration.

Edward Ruscha

#4. We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.

Buzz Aldrin

#5. What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board.

Louise Bernikow

#6. Tolstoy's famous line, all happiness is alike, but each pain is painful in its own way.

Haruki Murakami

#7. We don't have the power as humans to determine which day we die. We don't get to make that decision.

Eric Thomas

#8. Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

Jim Lehrer

#9. If this was a flirtation - and it felt like a flirtation - it was like no other flirtation in Katya's experience: with a man old enough to be her grandfather?

Joyce Carol Oates