Bruce Sprinsteen

From small things, Mama, big things one day come.

Bruce Springsteen (1949), nicknamed "The Boss", is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americanasentiments centered on his native New Jersey.

Mia Michaels

Genius lies in the awkward.

Mia Michaels is an American choreographer best known for her judging and contemporary choreography on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. She has worked with musical artists such as Celine Dion, Madonna, Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, and Prince. In 2005 she choreographed Cirque du Soleil's world tour, "Delirium" as well as Celine Dion's Las Vegas show "A New Day..." for which she was later nominated for Emmy. 

Chet Atkins

Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.


Chester Burton Atkins (1924 – 2001), better known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who helped create the smoother country music style known as the Nashville Sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.

Ernest Hemingway

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.


Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 for his novel The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway's unique style of writing had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. Famous titles include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Angela Monet

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.


This quote is attributed to Angela Monet but there is mystery surrounding who exactly she is. Do a Google search and nothing results, in this time and day this is quite the unusual case.

Meet Me in St. Louis

The moment I saw him smile 
I knew he was just my style.
 My only regret is we've never met,
 Though I dream of him all the while.


Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 romantic musical film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which tells the story of four sisters living in St. Louis at the time of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair in 1904. This line is said by Esther Smith, one of the story's main characters while she sings the "Trolley" song.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!


Dickens wrote this in the Pickwick Papers. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and one of the most popular of all time. He created some of literature's most iconic characters, with the theme of social reform running throughout his work.

The Breakfast Club

I mean, we're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.


This line is said by Emilio Esteveze's character in The Breakfast Club. The 1985 movie is about five high school students, all different stereotypes, and how they meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought. The movie is an 1980s classic and still adds new fans even today.

Mark Twain

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!


Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 -1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Coco Chanel

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.


Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. Her influence on haute couture was such that she was the only person in the field to be named on TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

L. Frank Baum

Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.


The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago in 1900, and has since been reprinted countless times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the extremely popular, highly acclaimed 1939 film version. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated.

J.K. Rowling

There are some things you can't share without ending being friends.


This quote comes from Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone by author J.K. Rowling. The Potter series books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold nearly 400 million copies. Aside from writing the Potter series, Rowling is equally notable for her "rags to riches" life story in which she progressed from living on welfare and writing on napkins to multi-millionaire status within five years time. Rowling, in 2008, was estimated to be the 12th richest women in Britain.

Nancy Willard

I haven't a clue how my story will end, but that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, thats when you discover the stars.


Nancy Willard (1936) is a children's author and poet. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She lives in Poughkeepsie, New York and lectures at Vassar College. She was educated at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award and received a B.A. and a Ph.D, and at Stanford University, where she received her M.A.

Gossip Girl

Sometimes you need to step outside, clear your head and remind yourself of who you are. And where you wanna be. And sometimes you have to venture outside your world in order to find yourself.


Gossip Girl is a show on the CW television network. Currently in its second season, it tells the story of the lives of privileged private school upper-east-side teenagers through the point of view of a rumor mill queen. The show is loosely based off of the Gossip Girl book series written by Cecily von Ziegesar.

The Little Prince

"You're lovely, but you're empty," he went on. "One couldn't die for you. Of course an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than you altogether, since she's the one I've wanted. Since she's the one I put under glass. Since she's the one I sheltered behind a screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except for two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose."

The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, was published in 1943. Saint-Exupery wrote the novel in the United States while spending time in New York. Most versions of the novel also include a number of drawings by the author. The novel has been translated into 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies making it one of the best-selling books ever.

Mike Sager

Writers my seem neurotic, but it takes a lot of courage to fill a blank page.

Mike Sager is a bestselling author and award winning journalist. He has been called the best poet of American Journalism and one of the rare reporters who can make literature out of shabby reality. Currently Sager is a writer-at-large for Esquire magazine.

J.M. Barrie

To live would be an awfully big adventure.

This is a line from the tale, Peter Pan. Considered a masterpiece since its first appearance on stage in 1904, Peter Pan is J.M. Barrie's most famous work and arguably the greatest of all children's Stories. Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist.

Dead Poets Society

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Dead Poets Society is a 1989 film directed by Peter Weir. Set in 1959 at a conservative and autocratic boys prep school, it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students to change their lives of conformity through his teaching of poetry and literature. The movie stars Robin Williams.