Monomaniacal Define Quotes

#1. Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Ayn Rand

#3. There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

Susan George

#4. My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

John McLaughlin

#5. OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

Nat Friedman

#6. I think all of us who kind of live within the sport recognize that Davis Cup certainly could be a little more visible if perhaps there were some adjustments made to it, and it was made a little bit more easy to understand for the fans, if there's a little bit more of a start and finish line.

Jim Courier

#7. I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you."

Kathleen Hanna

#8. Yet if there were no hazards there would be no achievement, no sense of adventure.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.

Sylvia Plath

#10. I think all of us in our lives feel like we can't make a difference or we can't make a change or it's too late or we're too tired or we're too scared.

Kerry Washington

#11. It's nice to be liked, but it's better by far to get paid.

Liz Phair

#12. I know it's hard when things like this happen. It's painful. Sometimes we make sacrifices. Sometimes we lose dear friends whom we love deeply, and that makes us want to hold our other loved ones closer so we don't lose them, too.

Lisa McMann

#13. Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

Matthew Shipp

#14. Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

Vita Sackville-West