WIlliam Shakespeare

The moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

Nikola Tesla

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

Nikola Tesla

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Nikola Tesla

I don't care that they stole my idea… I care that they don't have any of their own.

Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Plato

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Dieter Rams

Good design is as little design as possible.

Louis XIV (...his last words)

Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

Roger Ebert

To put it bluntly, I believe the world is patriarchal because men are bigger and stronger than women, and can beat them up.

Virgil Thomson

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Cannonball Adderley

You know sometimes we’re not prepared for adversity. When it happens sometimes we’re caught short. We don’t know exactly how to handle it when it comes up. Sometimes we don’t know just what to do when adversity takes over and I have advice for all of us. I got it from my pianist Joe Zawinul who wrote this tune and it sounds like what you’re supposed to say when you have that kind of problem and its called Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.

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Colin Powell

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

Thomas Jefferson

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.