Quoth

• "Change is the only constant." -Ev K
• "Don't make music, let it happen." -Ev K
• "I believe the key to happiness is: someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to." -Elvis Presley
• "Nobody is good at everything, but everybody is good at something." -Dad
• "Music doesn't lie." -YH
• "Being on time means being late." -Ju M on orchestra rehearsal
• "What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave." -Baltasar Gracian
• "When I perform, I have to tell the audience how I feel about the music. This is not a private affair, playing for an audience. It's a public thing. It's not like: 'I know what it sounds like -- none of your business!'" -Itzhak Perlman via Violinist.com
• "Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed." -Irene Peter

Books & Plays

• "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius…" -Arthur Conan Doyle; The Valley of Fear Chapter One
• "…that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop." -Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle; The Return of Sherlock Holmes Chapter Two: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
• "...even in that supreme moment of danger he knew the thrill of supreme bliss." Eleanor H Porter; Pollyanna Grows Up Chapter XXIV
• "To what good to have the talent, when one must pass one's life at teaching the infants?" -E Nesbit; The Enchanted Castle Chapter 6
• "In the bookstore, the finest writing is as accessible as the most forgettable, and both are accorded the same respect: here it is, is there a reader who wants it? No matter the book, there's always someone who does… There's something for everybody. And there's somebody for everything." -Lewis Buzbee; 'Alone Among Others' The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
• "…as soon as the playing begins, as soon as the sounds begin to take shape, the nervousness stops. The player is wholly immersed in transmitting his emotional experiences, and instead of a trembling right hand and clammy left fingers, there is an ever increasing desire to communicate his own pleasure in making music, to the audience. For only those who are free to derive pleasure from music--are in turn able to give pleasure." -Kato Havas; A New Approach to Violin Playing
• "There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in - that's stronger." -Sara Crewe/Frances Hodgson Burnett; A Little Princess
• "There's magic in the words 'silk' and 'lace,' isn't there?" -Aunt Jamesina/LM Montgomery; Anne of the Island
• "…but, dear me, let us be elegant or die!" -Louisa May Alcott; Little Women
• "After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working." -Kenneth Grahame; The Wind in the Willows
• "Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole." -Louisa May Alcott; Little Women Chapter Forty-One
• "That's the strange thing about children. They use the magic of reversal, turning faults into charms. Even if that is a kind of magic that only really works on parents." -Takumi Aio/Takuji Ichikawa; Be With You Page 93
• "For it so falls out / That what we have we prize not to the worth / Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, / Why, then we rack the value, then we find / The virtue that possession would not show us / Whiles it was ours." -Friar Francis/Shakespeare; Much Ado About Nothing Act 4 Scene 1
• "I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends." -Bobbie/E Nesbit; The Railway Children
• "And from the three long uncurtained windows the beautiful stretch of meadow and moorland, the far violet of the hills, and the unchanging changefulness of cloud and sky." -E Nesbit; The Railway Children
• "If everybody thought of everything, there'd be nothing left for anybody else to think about." -Bobbie/E Nesbit; The Railway Children
• "My dear grandmother … used to say if you find someone who doesn't like animals, children, or music… run." -Sylvia Browne; All Pets Go To Heaven
• "Do not dare not to dare." -Aslan/CS Lewis; The Horse and His Boy Chapter Fourteen
• "It seemed almost as if beauty of apparel could go no further than that heavenly pink gingham dress!" -Kate Douglas Wiggin; Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Chapter 8

Films & TV

• "You don't believe it because it's the truth, but it becomes the truth because you believe it." -Vice Principal; Nobuta wo Produce Episode 8
• "Here's the thing about the future: every time you look at it, it changes; because you looked at it. And that changes everything else." -Cris Johnson; Next
• "If we're all alone, then we're all together in that too." -Patricia Rawley; P.S. I Love You
• "It isn't worth winning if you don't have to fight for it." -Jackie Dorsey; The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold
• "To win you have to be willing to fail." -Doug Dorsey; The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold

Anime & Manga

• "Becoming a patron of a brilliant artist is one of the pleasures of being an adult." -Grandma Wakamiya; Chihayafuru Chapter 247
• "It's kind of ridiculous to judge art on a point system in the first place." -Yukari; Paradise Kiss
• "No matter how awful things seem, it's always worth living in this world." -Komiyama; Fancy Lala Episode 26
• "Why is it that people feel they have to be like somebody else? Why do they have to feel jealous? If they can see the admirable qualities in someone else, why can't they see the admirable qualities in themselves?" -Honda Tohru; Fruits Basket (2001) Episode 7
• "Haste is a taboo. So that you can be at your full potential at any time, you must always be calm." -Eriol Hiiragizawa; Cardcaptor Sakura Episode 63
• "Wear good shoes, and those shoes will take you to good places." -Todo Shizuka; Hana Yori Dango Chapter 10
• "A human will not stop caring for someone they like.. even if others tell them to." -Tsurugi Budou; Oishi Study
• "There's no substitute for someone who's important to a human. No matter who a person likes, there are no 'mistakes' in their feelings." -Tsurugi Minori; Oishi Study