Aunt Betsey made a bad bargain when she exchanged her girlish aspirations for a man whose soul was in his pocket. – Louisa May Alcott, “Christie,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did. – James A. Baldwin
Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. Its not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. Its about the fact that I really do enjoy it. – Ville Valo
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her masters there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didnt go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. – Ben Affleck
Ajax isnt a technology. Its really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. – Jesse James Garrett