Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes
I have a treadmill, and I work out with my trainer, Julie Diamond, as often as possible. She's so positive.
Emily Deschanel
People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms... →
Kapil Dev
These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar... →
Ani DiFranco
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes... →
Neil Diamond
Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to... →
Junot Diaz
To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an... →
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens
Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody... →
Joan Didion