Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.

say what the masses want just to win the masses and never do what the masses want and you will loose the masses

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

When you leave a pimp, you leave with nothing.

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.

Like no matter what happens, this would be the ultimate, they can make something positive happen.

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal.

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.