Blind Men and an Elephant

Lewis Carroll

2012-01-27T06:14:00.000-08:00

"Always speak the truth,

think before you speak,

and write it down afterwards."

Lewis Carroll

Angela Davis

2012-01-26T05:18:00.000-08:00

"What this country needs is

more unemployed politicians."
Angela Davis

Virginia Woolf

2012-01-25T05:53:00.000-08:00

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."

Virginia Woolf

Edith Wharton

2012-01-24T07:02:00.000-08:00

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy

we'd have a pretty good time."

Edith Wharton

Edouard Manet

2012-01-23T06:07:00.000-08:00

"There are no lines in nature,

only areas of colour, one against another."
Edouard Manet

David Lynch

2012-01-20T05:30:00.000-08:00

"But even a bad cup of coffee is

better than no coffee at all."

David Lynch

Wikipedia

2012-01-19T04:59:00.000-08:00

"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

John Perry Barlow

2012-01-18T06:14:00.000-08:00

“The Internet treats censorship as

a malfunction and routes around it.”
John Perry Barlow

Benjamin Franklin

2012-01-17T05:34:00.000-08:00

“Many people die at twenty five and

aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
Benjamin Franklin

Martin Luther King, Jr.

2012-01-16T11:26:00.000-08:00

"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.

Brian Eno

2012-01-13T06:15:00.000-08:00

"I often work by avoidance."
Brian Eno

Maurice Sendak

2012-01-12T05:42:00.000-08:00

"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

Theodore Roosevelt

2012-01-11T09:19:00.000-08:00

"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

Jello Biafra

2012-01-10T09:49:00.000-08:00

"For every prohibition you create

you also create an underground."
Jello Biafra

Jean Pierre Blanchard

2012-01-09T11:06:00.000-08:00

"...permit me, gentlemen, to advise you

not to attempt to keep up with me..."

Jean Pierre Blanchard

Alvin Ailey

2012-01-05T05:58:00.000-08:00

"Racism tears down your insides

so that no matter what you achieve,

you're not quite up to snuff."
Alvin Ailey

Matt Frewer

2012-01-04T09:25:00.000-08:00

"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

J. R. R. Tolkien

2012-01-03T13:33:00.000-08:00

"It does not do to leave a live dragon

out of your calculations, if you live near him."
J. R. R. Tolkien

Sitting Bull

2011-12-29T10:50:00.000-08:00

"The white man knows how to make

everything, but he does not know

how to distribute it."
Sitting Bull

Charlie Chaplin

2011-12-23T05:29:00.000-08:00

"Life could be wonderful if

people would leave you alone."
Charlie Chaplin

Ernest Hemingway

2011-12-22T05:59:00.000-08:00

"Write drunk. Edit sober."
Ernest Hemingway

Robert Frost

2011-12-21T05:40:00.000-08:00

“The brain is a wonderful organ;

it starts working the moment you

get up in the morning and does not

stop until you get into the office.”
Robert Frost

Rebecca Hoffberger

2011-12-20T05:35:00.000-08:00

"Respect the visionaries in all fields.

Visionaries are evolutionaries.

They're not afraid to be called fools

or make mistakes. They stand at

the edge and report back."
Rebecca Hoffberger

Richard Leakey

2011-12-19T05:13:00.000-08:00

Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers

in our heads, looking out on a modern

world made comfortable for some by the

fruits of human inventiveness, and made
miserable for others by the scandal

of deprivation in the midst of plenty.
Richard Leakey

Ludwig van Beethoven

2011-12-16T05:38:00.000-08:00

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."
Ludwig van Beethoven

Arthur C. Clarke

2011-12-15T05:27:00.000-08:00

"The only way of finding the limits

of the possible is by going beyond

them into the impossible."
Arthur C. Clarke

Shirley Jackson

2011-12-14T05:40:00.000-08:00

"I delight in what I fear. "
Shirley Jackson

Kenneth Patchen

2011-12-13T05:24:00.000-08:00

“There are so many little dyings

that it doesn't matter which of them is death.”
Kenneth Patchen

Edvard Munch

2011-12-12T07:03:00.000-08:00

"A person himself believes that all the other portraits

are good likenesses except the one of himself."
Edvard Munch

Edgar Allen Poe

2011-12-09T05:21:00.000-08:00

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
Edgar Allen Poe

Alan Turing

2011-12-08T05:50:00.000-08:00

"No, I'm not interested in developing

a powerful brain. All I'm after is

just a mediocre brain, something like

the President of the American

Telephone and Telegraph Company."
Alan Turing

Stephen King

2011-12-07T06:32:00.000-08:00

"I have the heart of a child - I keep it in a jar."
Stephen King

Benicio Del Toro

2011-12-06T05:22:00.000-08:00

“I'm not Jack Nicholson.

I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.”
Benicio Del Toro

Neil deGrasse Tyson

2011-12-05T06:21:00.000-08:00

"Kids are never the problem.

They are born scientists.

The problem is always the adults.

The beat the curiosity out of the kids.

They out-number kids. They vote.

They wield resources."
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Brother Guy Consolmango

2011-12-02T05:57:00.000-08:00

“Any entity – no matter how many

tentacles it has has a soul."
(When asked if he was comfortable

with the idea of alien life.)
Brother Guy Consolmango

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

2011-12-01T05:57:00.000-08:00

"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.

There's plenty of movement, but you never know

if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Samuel Johnson

2011-11-30T06:13:00.000-08:00

"All knowledge is of itself of some value.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I

would not rather know it than not."
Samuel Johnson

Stanley Kubrick

2011-11-29T12:57:00.000-08:00

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters,

and the small nations like prostitutes."
Stanley Kubrick

P. Benchley

2011-11-28T12:26:00.000-08:00

"You don't have to swim faster than the shark,

just faster than the guy next to you."
P. Benchley

Arthur Schopenhauer

2011-11-22T05:37:00.000-08:00

"All truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed.

Second, it is violently opposed.

Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer

Ludwig Wittgenstein

2011-11-21T07:28:00.000-08:00

“I don’t know why we are here. But, I’m pretty

sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Louis Daguerre

2011-11-18T06:29:00.000-08:00

"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight."
Louis Daguerre

Oscar Wilde

2011-11-17T06:28:00.000-08:00

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't

understand a single word of what I am saying."
Oscar Wilde

Abraham Lincoln

2011-11-16T05:56:00.000-08:00

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves;

and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
Abraham Lincoln

Sir William Herschel

2011-11-15T06:43:00.000-08:00

"The undevout astronomer must be mad."

Sir William Herschel

Vladimir Zworykin

2011-11-14T06:19:00.000-08:00

"I hate what they've done to my child...

I would never let my own children watch it."
[On his feelings about watching television.]

Vladimir Zworykin

Aristotle

2011-11-11T05:25:00.000-08:00

"No great genius has ever existed

without a strain of madness."
Aristotle

Carl Sagan

2011-11-10T05:11:00.000-08:00

"We are star stuff contemplating star stuff."
Carl Sagan

Terry Pratchett

2011-11-09T06:04:00.000-08:00

"Multiple exclamation marks are a
sure sign of a diseased mind."
Terry Pratchett

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

2011-11-08T05:13:00.000-08:00

"I did not think I investigated...It seemed at first

a new kind of invisible light. It was clearly

something new something unrecorded...There is

much to do, and I am busy, very busy"
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
(First observer of X-rays made on 8 Nov 1895)

Robert Anton Wilson

2011-11-04T05:26:00.000-07:00

"If you think you know what the hell is going on,

you're probably full of shit."
Robert Anton Wilson

Ashleigh Brilliant

2011-11-03T05:37:00.000-07:00

"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."
Ashleigh Brilliant

Bobcat Goldthwait

2011-11-02T05:56:00.000-07:00

"If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me instead."
Bobcat Goldthwait

George Bernard Shaw

2011-11-01T11:51:00.000-07:00

"The power of accurate observation is commonly

called cynicism by those who have not got it."
George Bernard Shaw

David Tennant

2011-10-31T05:29:00.000-07:00

"That's the nature of being a teenager. It felt awkward and ugly and different. I felt uncool to the depths of my soul and I've never really recovered from that - I still think I'm uncool."
David Tennant

William Gibson

2011-10-27T05:09:00.000-07:00

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes.”
William Gibson

Rev. Robert F. Capon

2011-10-26T10:55:00.000-07:00

"The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls."
Rev. Robert F. Capon

Jack Nicholson

2011-10-21T06:06:00.000-07:00

"Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd."

Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance

Sigmund Freud

2011-08-17T11:24:00.000-07:00

"America is the most grandiose experiment
the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."

Sigmund Freud

Allen Ginsberg

2010-10-30T08:18:00.001-07:00

"Follow your inner moonlight: don't hide the madness."

Allen Ginsberg

Norman Vincent Peale

2010-05-20T03:05:00.000-07:00

"Believe that you are defeated, believe it long enough,
and it is likely to become a fact."

Norman Vincent Peale

Umberto Eco

2009-12-11T03:00:00.000-08:00

"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

2009-12-10T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Peter Ventantonio

2009-12-09T03:30:00.000-08:00

"No one can tell me what to do."

Peter Ventantonio

E.B. White

2009-12-08T03:00:00.000-08:00

"Genius is more often found in a

cracked pot than in a whole one."

E.B. White

William "Bill" Vaughan

2009-12-07T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Thomas Szasz

2009-12-06T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-05T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Hugh Ferriss

2009-12-04T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-03T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Edith Sitwell

Runar Runarrsson

2009-12-02T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-01T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Cyril Connolly

2009-11-30T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Oscar Levant

2009-11-29T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Helen Keller

2009-11-28T03:00:00.000-08:00

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller

Lois McMaster Bujold

2009-11-27T03:00:00.000-08:00

What you are is a question only you can answer.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Abraham Lincoln

2009-11-26T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Émile François Zola

2009-11-25T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Charles Bukiwski

2009-11-24T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Will Rogers

2009-11-23T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Dorothy Parker

2009-11-22T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

2009-11-21T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Thich Nhat Hanh

2009-11-20T03:00:00.000-08:00

We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

2009-11-19T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Virginia Woolf

2009-11-18T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Jónsi Birgisson

2009-11-17T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Walt Whitman

2009-11-16T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Zana Briski

2009-11-15T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Emily Dickinson

2009-11-14T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

John Steinbeck

2009-11-13T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

John Cleese

2009-11-12T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

James Baldwin

2009-11-11T03:30:00.000-08:00

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

Lorine Niedecker

2009-11-10T03:00:00.000-08:00

What would they say if they knew
I sit for two months
on six lines of poetry?
Lorine Niedecker

George Bernard Shaw

2009-11-09T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Stanislav Petrov

2009-11-08T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Pablo Picasso

2009-11-07T03:00:00.000-08:00

It takes a long time to grow young.

Pablo Picasso

Ernest Hemingway

2009-11-06T03:00:00.000-08:00

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

Martin Scorsese

2009-11-05T03:00:00.000-08:00

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.
Martin Scorsese

Mae West

2009-11-04T03:00:00.000-08:00

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
Mae West

Theodor Seuss Geisel

2009-11-03T03:00:00.000-08:00

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

Theodor Seuss Geisel