I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.
In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.
As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth. " And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.
Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
I'm so scared girls look at my breast implants and think, 'To get boys, you need big boobs. ' I tell them, 'Don't get it done. Those fears go away. You develop other insecurities, but breasts aren't one of them. ' I want to get them half-size.
I don't believe that competitions are important.