Bliss Carman

Indifference may not wreck a man's
life at any one turn, but it will
destroy him with a kind of dry-rot
in the long run.

Sun Ra

It's such a tragedy that man endures
in killing his brother and his own kind,
putting him in jail and insane asylums,
letting him lay out in the street.

Lord Byron

A celebrity is one who is known to
many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Franz Kafka

A man of action forced into a state
of thought is unhappy until he can
get out of it.

W H Auden

A poet can write about a man slaying a
dragon, but not about a man pushing a
button that releases a bomb.

Mae West

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be silent that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.

William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
for then both parties nobly are subdued,
and neither party loser.

Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for,
have their melancholy; for what we leave
behind us is a part of ourselves; we must
die to one life before we can enter another.

George Burns

Acting is all about honesty. If you can
fake that, you've got it made.

Sting

I see music as one language. If one musical
form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs
to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

William S Burroughs

A functioning police state needs no police.

Tina Turner

But I believe we have a higher
level of mentality within us,
but we have to use the power
in the right way.

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words
never quite equal the experience behind them.

Marquis de Sade

Between understanding and faith
immediate connections must subsist.

Seamus Heaney

I credit poetry for making this
space-walk possible.

Corazon Aquino

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice,
otherwise it will not last. While we all hope
for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but
peace based on principle, on justice.

Adrienne Rich

Every journey into the past is
complicated by delusions, false
memories, false namings of real
events.

Bon Scott

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change
his mind and won't change the subject.

Jorge Luis Borges

Art always opts for the individual,
the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Ambrose Bierce

Speak when you are angry and you will
make the best speech you will ever regret.