Andrew R. Mares

“Parents owed their children admonition and discipline, not expressive sentiment.”
― Fred Kaplan, John Quincy Adams: American Visionary

“It was by ignoring men, and ignoring all small causes, but by closely calculating the tendencies of events and the great forces which were producing logical results.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

“My number-one thing with other drummers is I want them to enjoy themselves. Dude, you’re a drummer—you’re the coolest one in the fucking band. Act like you love being there and give me a reason to watch you.”
― Travis Barker, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums

“Complex and original people know that truth is rarely simple, almost never all of this or all of that, but elusive minglings and mixtures, evolving shapes, with tinctures of irony and paradox.”
― Robert Morgan, Boone: A Biography