That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill – all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

I am what I am, and intend to be it,” for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself. The Plumers will try to prevent him from making...

Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.

Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being.

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don’t think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

And no one was ill, and everyone was pleased, except those who had to mow the grass.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I’ll play a rock star,...

My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson… and Placido Domingo.

The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will...

When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. ” People get stuck...

The chains that keep you bound to the past are not the actions of another person. They are your own anger, stubbornness, lack of compassion, jealousy and blaming others for your choices. It is not...

I know how I felt when I saw things like ‘Fame’ on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can...

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

I had friends growing up; there were other home-schoolers we were in touch with so we weren’t isolated, and I’ve always been happy engaged in my own projects and pursuing my own goals.

Discipline is strength to the muscles your heels will need to climb up the hills of greatness

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the...

You’ll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you’ll be challenged and growing and having fun.

I watched a ton of cartoons growing up, but I don’t remember specifically what networks they were on, I’ll be honest. But I did like cartoons as a kid.

I loved growing up and going to haunted houses and being scared. I loved watching ‘The Exorcist,’ ‘Candyman’ and all sorts of scary movies.

The Fall will always be yours and mine…

Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is an anathema to an ecologist.

Don’t ever get to the point where you can’t be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew)...

I have hopein who I am becoming.I have belief in every scar and disgraceful wordI have ever spokenor been toldbecause it is still teaching meand I have hope in who I am becoming.They say it...

I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, ‘Oh, maybe if I’m lucky I’ll make it to Broadway by the time I’m 40!’

As users flock to Vine, Snapchat and, previously, Instagram, the social platforms are challenged to continue to be the primary provider of these services to the growing army of smartphone users.

‘Rugrats’ was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai’s suburbs.

People say to you, ‘you’ve changed’, or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God that you have changed, because I don’t want to be the same person all my life. I...

Gas consumption is growing everywhere.

If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing. I hope to use life’s challenges as stepping stones to ever greater things.

I loved growing up in Tulsa.

Devo and The Cramps didn’t get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn’t get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn’t even a place to...

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity – the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired...

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.