Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
#quotes #benjamin-franklin #friendship #enemy

Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect! ~Jonathan Richman
#quotes #jonathan-richman #guitar #music

I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
#quotes #steven-wright #humor

I don't know where I come from but I am here now so deal with it. ~Gary Busey
#quotes #gary-busey #existence

Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
#quotes #carl-von-clausewitz #war #military

I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is. ~Evan Rachel Wood
#quotes #evan-rachel-wood #love

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ~Edith Sitwell
#quotes #edith-sitwell #reading #music #silence

He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
#quotes #melina-marchetta #men #common-sense #speaking

No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs

If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
#quotes #richard-p-feynman #knowledge

Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
#quotes #mahatma-gandhi #evil

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #perseverance

Lovely message for a lovely person, from lovely friend, for a lovely reason, at a lovely time, from a lovely mind, in a lovely mood, in a lovely style, to wish you; have a lovely birthday...
#birthday #cute

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
#quotes #frank-black #music #rules

I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that is just how it is going to be. ~Jen Lancaster
#quotes #jen-lancaster

One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
#quotes #george-archer #golf

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs

If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
#quotes #nguyen-cao-ky #peace #united-states

I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
#quotes #vivienne-westwood #teenage #girls #boys

In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
#quotes #yayoi-kusama #georgia-o-keeffe #art #books

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
#quotes #patti-smith #music #puccini #little-richard

Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
#quotes #haruki-murakami #emptiness

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. ~Tom Petty
#quotes #tom-petty #marriage

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #mind

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it ~Miley Cyrus
#quotes #miley-cyrus #music