Quotations

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."

— George Harrison, English musician, born 1943

"Gossip is the Devil's radio."

— George Harrison, English musician, born 1943

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

— John Lennon and Yono on their first Bed-In for Peace, 1969

"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."

— Paul McCartney, English musician, born 1942

"Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff."

— Paul McCartney, English musician, born 1942

"You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues. And you know it don't come easy."

— Ringo Starr, English singer, born 1940

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be."

— John Lennon, English musician, born 1940

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end."

— John Lennon, English musician, born 1940

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now."

— John Lennon, English musician, born 1940

"As long as you hate, there will be people to hate."

— George Harrison, English singer, born 1943

"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."

— Cecil Beaton, English photographer, born 1904

"Do everything right all the time and the child will prosper. It is as simple as that, except for: fate, luck, heredity, chance, the astrological sign he was born under, his order of birth, his first encounter with evil, the girl who jilts him in spite of his excellent qualities, the war being fought when he is a young man, the drugs he may try too many times, the friends he makes, how he scores on tests, how well he endures kidding about his shortcomings, how ambitious he becomes, how far he falls behind, circumstantial evidence, danger when it is least expected, difficulty in triumphing over circumstances, people with hidden agendas, and animals with rabies."

— Ann Beattie, American writer, born 1947

"Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization."

— Simone de Beauvoir, French author, born 1908

"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."

— Simone de Beauvoir, French author, born 1908