Monday, November 30, 2009

Cyril Connolly

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Oscar Levant

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Friday, November 27, 2009

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Émile François Zola

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret
curing myself of using tobacco.
Émile François Zola

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Charles Bukiwski

Some people never go crazy.
What truly horrible lives they must live
.
Charles Bukiwski

Monday, November 23, 2009

Will Rogers

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Will Rogers

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Dorothy Parker

I'm never going to be famous. I don't do anything, not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
Dorothy Parker

Saturday, November 21, 2009

J.R.R. Tolkien

You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Friday, November 20, 2009

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Virginia Woolf

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.

Virgina Woolf

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Jónsi Birgisson

I think we don't like to be a political band. We don't like to make statements - we usually don't like bands who make crazy statements. If you're going to do it you have to be educated about it, know what you're talking about.
Jónsi Birgisson

Monday, November 16, 2009

Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Zana Briski

Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.
Zana Briski

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Emily Dickinson

Whenever a thing is done for the first time,
it releases a little demon.

Emily Dickinson

Friday, November 13, 2009

John Steinbeck

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs
think humans are nuts.

John Steinbeck

Thursday, November 12, 2009

John Cleese

When I suddenly discovered that I could sit down with a blank sheet of paper and two hours later I could have written something that then made people laugh — this was an extraordinary moment for me, and I thought,
‘My goodness, I am creative...

John Cleese

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

James Baldwin

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Lorine Niedecker

What would they say if they knew
I sit for two months

on six lines of poetry?

Lorine Niedecker

Monday, November 9, 2009

George Bernard Shaw

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Stanislav Petrov

I made a decision and that was it....
...a nuclear war could have broken out. The whole world
could have been destroyed.

Stanislav Petrov

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Friday, November 6, 2009

Ernest Hemingway

That is what we are supposed to do 
when we are at our best - make it all up 
- but make it up so truly
that later it will happen that way.

Ernest Hemingway

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Monday, November 2, 2009

Frank Lloyd Wright



Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house
as to build a cathedral.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of
living de-geniuses them.

Buckminster Fuller