Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Michelangelo Buonarroti

 "If people only knew how hard I work 
to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem 
so wonderful at all.."
Michelangelo Buonarroti

Monday, March 5, 2012

Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr. Seuss

 "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. 
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, 
it's a way of looking at life through the 
wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, 
and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr. Seuss

Friday, March 2, 2012

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Ralph Ellison

 "I am invisible, understand, simply 
because people refuse to see me."
Ralph Ellison

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Jack R. Lousma

 "I always tell people I answered an ad in
 the newspaper... right on the front page
there was this advertisement or article that was 
saying 'NASA's looking for new astronauts...' "
Jack R. Lousma

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Linus Pauling

 "Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of 
the greatest sources of happiness in life."
Linus Pauling

Friday, February 24, 2012

George Frederic Handel

 “Whether I was in my body or out 
of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.”
George Frederic Handel

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Frederic Chopin

 "Simplicity is the final achievement. 
After one has played a vast quantity of notes 
and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges
 as the crowning reward of art."
Frederic Chopin

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Ansel Adams

 "It is horrifying that we have to 
fight our own government to save the environment."
Ansel Adams

Friday, February 17, 2012

Matt Groening

 "Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig 
and then suddenly he turns on you 
with a miniature machine gun."
Matt Groening

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Susan B. Anthony

"Cautious, careful people, always 
casting about to preserve their reputations...
can never effect a reform."
Susan B. Anthony

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Galileo Galilei

 "In questions of science, the authority of 
a thousand is not worth the humble 
reasoning of a single individual."
Galileo Galilei

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Frederick Douglass

 "At a time like this, scorching irony, 
not convincing argument, is needed."
Frederick Douglass

Monday, February 13, 2012

Friday, February 10, 2012

Ossie Davis

 “Any form of art is a form of power; 
it has impact, it can affect change 
it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
Ossie Davis

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Kurt Vonnegut

 "Be careful what you pretend to be 
because you are what you pretend to be."
Kurt Vonnegut

Monday, February 6, 2012

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Dorothea Tanning

"Keep your eye on your inner world 
and keep away from ads 
and idiots and movie stars, 
except when you need amusement."
Dorothea Tanning

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Langston Hughes

 "I tire so of hearing people say, 
let things take their course. Tomorrow is 
another day. I do not need my freedom 
when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."
Langston Hughes

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Jackie Robinson

 "I'm not concerned with your liking 
or disliking me. All I ask is that you 
respect me as a human being."
Jackie Robinson

Monday, January 30, 2012

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 "A conservative is a man with two 
perfectly good legs who, however, 
has never learned how to walk forward."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Friday, January 27, 2012

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Angela Davis

 "What this country needs is 
more unemployed politicians."
Angela Davis

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Edith Wharton

 "If only we'd stop trying to be happy
we'd have a pretty good time."
Edith Wharton

Monday, January 23, 2012

Edouard Manet

 "There are no lines in nature, 
only areas of colour, one against another."
Edouard Manet

Friday, January 20, 2012

David Lynch

 "But even a bad cup of coffee is 
better than no coffee at all."
David Lynch


Thursday, January 19, 2012

Wikipedia


"The Wikipedia blackout is over 
— and you have spoken.
More than 162 million people saw our 
message asking if you could imagine a world
without free knowledge.  You said no. 
You shut down Congress’s switchboards. 
You melted their servers. Your voice 
was loud and strong.  Millions of people have spoken
in defense of a free and open Internet."
Wikipedia

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Monday, January 16, 2012

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 "History will have to record that the 
greatest tragedy of this period of 
social transition was not the strident clamor 
of the bad people, but the 
appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Maurice Sendak

 "My work has always been considered inappropriate.
But the ones that I love the ones that I think work 
as works of art and books are inappropriate."
Maurice Sendak

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Theodore Roosevelt

  "Far better is it to dare mighty things, 
to win glorious triumphs, 
even though checkered by failure...
than to rank with those poor spirits 
who neither enjoy nor suffer much, 
because they live in a gray twilight 
that knows not victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Monday, January 9, 2012

Jean Pierre Blanchard

"...permit me, gentlemen, to advise you 
not to attempt to keep up with me..."
Jean Pierre Blanchard

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Alvin Ailey

 "Racism tears down your insides 
so that no matter what you achieve, 
you're not quite up to snuff."
Alvin Ailey

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Matt Frewer

"I'm extremely fortunate to be doing what I'm doing. 
I'd do it for free...but don't tell them that."
Matt Frewer

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

J. R. R. Tolkien

 "It does not do to leave a live dragon 
out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien