Mark Rothko

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,
and the only means of making concrete
the purpose of its varied quickness
and stillness.

Aristotle

"In all things of nature there is something marvelous."

Grace Slick

No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is,
you still have to get out of it.

Jerry Garcia

Constantly choosing the lesser of two
evils is still choosing evil.

Pablo Neruda

A child who does not play is not a
child, but the man who doesn't play
has lost forever the child who lived
in him and who he will miss terribly.

Bob Dylan

A hero is someone who understands the
responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Lao Tzu

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though
she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Sitting Bull

Each man is good in His sight. It is not
necessary for eagles to be crows.

Merle Haggard

When you get to readin' about where the
music and John Steinbeck and all those
people like that come from, the further
you go the more interesting it becomes.

Peter Gabriel

One thing that really appeals to me
is this idea of music being a living
thing that has an evolution that, in
a way, enables the artist to sell a
process rather than a piece of product.

Jack Kerouac

All human beings are also dream beings.
Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Charles Ives

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak,
when something in nature seems to reveal
all consciousness, cannot be explained at
noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

Archibald MacLeish

What is more important in a library than
anything else - than everything else - is
the fact that it exists.

Lenny Bruce

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago,
Catholic school children would be wearing
little electric chairs around their necks
instead of crosses.

Steven Spielberg

A lot of the films I've made probably could
have worked just as well 50 years ago, and
that's just because I have a lot of
old-fashion values.

Matsuo Basho

There is nothing you can see that is
not a flower; there is nothing you can
think that is not the moon.

Annie Lennox

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today?
Make kindness your daily modus operandi
and change your world.

Sylvia Plath

But life is long. And it is the long run
that balances the short flare of interest
and passion.

Xavier Cugat

I would rather play Chiquita Banana and
have my swimming pool than play Bach and
starve.

Milton Babbitt

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

Bruce Lee

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Alan Alda

Be as smart as you can, but remember
that it is always better to be wise
than to be smart.

W.C. Fields

Don't worry about your heart, it
will last you as long as you live.

Leonard Cohen

A woman watches her body uneasily, as
though it were an unreliable ally in
the battle for love.

Aleister Crowley

Falsehood is invariably the child of
fear in one form or another.

Rene Crevel

"No daring is fatal.
The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring,
in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support."

Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.

Randy Bachman

You take all the things that frighten you,
and when you can get them to work for you
all of sudden people are calling you a success.

Lana Turner

A successful man is one who makes more money
than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.