A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.
Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.
I write because I have to write; but I also write because there’s somebody out there, hopefully, who will read it.
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.
Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.
Because of dreams, success is worth pursuing. Because of love, life is worth living.
The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.
People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.
I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
