“Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."

Igor Stravinsky
(17 June 1882 – 6 April 1971),
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.

"Love is not love, without a violin playing goat."

Julia Roberts
(born 28 October 1967), American actress.

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"

Carl Sagan (9 Nov. 1934 - 20 Dec. 1996), American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and cosmologist.

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten."

Neil Richard Gaiman (born 10 November 1960),
English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, audio theatre, and films.

"Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm not. That's why it's called 'acting'."

Leonardo DiCaprio
(born 11 November 1974), American actor.

"I have a goal, it's a big one, and that's to bring a championship to Northeast Ohio. And I won't stop until it's done!"

LeBron James
(born 30 December 1984),
Miami Heat NBA basketball player.

"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"

Frida Kahlo de Rivera
(6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954),
Mexican painter.

"Dress every day like you gonna get murdered in those clothes."

Tracy Morgan
(born 10 November 1968),
American actor and comedian.

"I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel."

Cher
(born Cherilyn Sarkisian 20 May 1946),
American pop singer-songwriter, actress, director and record producer.

"In football (soccer) everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team."

Jean Paul Sartre
(21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980), French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

"I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on."

Mark Rothko
(25 Sept. 1903 - 25 Feb. 1970), Latvian-born, American painter.

"Grief is, in a sense, the bill that comes due for love."

George Saunders
(born 2 December 1958),
American writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children's books.

"There are moments that I've had some real brilliance, you know. But I think they are moments. And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough."

Dennis Hopper
(17 May 1936 - 29 May 2010),
American actor, filmmaker and artist.

"The point is that you can't just flash it. You have to have a face that goes with it. There has to be some emotion behind it..."

Ronnie James Dio (10 July 1942 - 16 May 2010),
American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter.

"I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."

Joan Didion
(born 5 December 1934),
American novelist and essayist.

"It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do."

Lena Horne (30 June 1917 - 9 May 2010),
American singer, actress and dancer.

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."

Patti Smith
(born 30 December 1946),
American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist.

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Lewis Carroll
(27 Jan. 1832 - 14 Jan. 1898),
English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer.

"The devil follows me day and night, because he is afraid to be alone."

Francis Picabia
(22 January 1879 - 30 November 1953),
French painter and poet.

"When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity."

Maria Irene Fornes (born 14 May 1930), Cuban-American playwright.

"I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe."

Tamara de Lempicka
(16 May 1898 - 18 March 18 1980), Polish Art Deco painter.

"You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you...."

Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 7 February 1929), Chilean playwright, director, producer, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, historian and psychotherapist. Best-known for the 1970 film El Topo.

"The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require our attention."

Mary Flannery O'Connor
(25 March 1925 - 3 August 1964)
American novelist, short story writer and essayist.

"If you win, by the end of May it's not such a big deal. If you don't win, it's not such a big deal either."

Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 - 27 March 2002), Austrian-American journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.