Umberto Eco

"But now I have come to believe that the 

whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma 

that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret 

it as though it had an underlying truth"

Umberto Eco

Henry Ward Beecher

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

Henry Ward Beecher

Peter Ventantonio

"No one can tell me what to do."

Peter Ventantonio

E.B. White

"Genius is more often found in a 

cracked pot than in a whole one."

E.B. White

William "Bill" Vaughan

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
William "Bill" Vaughan

Thomas Szasz

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

Robert Smithson

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
Robert Smithson

Hugh Ferriss

There were banks pretending to be temples, skyscrapers pretending to be cathedrals, and Madison Square office buildings pretending to be Venetian campaniles-and all were getting gold medals for the pretense.

Hugh Ferriss

Edith Sitwell

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Edith Sitwell

Runar Runarrsson

I am quite an egocentric filmmaker. I make films because of my own interest and it's, more or less, yeah it's about myself one way or the other with a certain percentage of fiction.
Rúnar Rúnarsson

Bob Hope

A bank is a place that will lend you money
if you can prove you don't need it. Bob Hope