"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Dance and Dancing
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"The past should be a springboard, not a hammock."

Ball, Ivern on Past
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"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."

Nin, Anais on Love
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"If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it."

Kettering, Charles F. on Ideas
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"We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world."

Kettering, Charles F. on Failure
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"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."

Kettering, Charles F. on Failure
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on Passion
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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

Austen, Jane on Marriage
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"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

Ellison, Ralph on Outcasts
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"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."

Cosby, Bill on Music
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"Song is the heroics of speech."

Carlyle, Thomas on Music
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"One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music."

Carlyle, Thomas on Music
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"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture."

Cage, John on Music
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"Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first."

Billings, Josh on Music
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"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on Music
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"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on Music
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"Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory."

Beecham, Sir Thomas on Music
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