“The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hollywood is more of an idea than a place.” — Kevin Bacon

“My life is like a stroll on the beach… as near to the edge as I can go.” — Henry David Thoreau 

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” — Louis Armstrong

“Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.” — Richard Gilman

“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” — John Updike

“Art is a line around your thoughts.” — Gustav Klimt

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” — Martha Graham

“We are asleep until we fall in love!” — Leo Tolstoy

“We are not the makers of history. We are made by history.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. 

“Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.” — Bill Cunningham

“Paris is always a good idea.” — Audrey Hepburn

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” — Henry David Thoreau

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does.” — Christopher Morley

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” — Edgar Allan Poe

“Rock and roll is here to stay.” — Neil Young

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R. Martin

“Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.” — Cesar Chavez

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh