Sitting Bull

 "The white man knows how to make 

everything, but he does not know 

how to distribute it."
Sitting Bull

Charlie Chaplin

 "Life could be wonderful if 

people would leave you alone."
Charlie Chaplin

Ernest Hemingway

 "Write drunk. Edit sober."
Ernest Hemingway

Robert Frost

 “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

 "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

 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

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

Arthur C. Clarke

 "The only way of finding the limits

of the possible is by going beyond

them into the impossible."
Arthur C. Clarke

Shirley Jackson

 "I delight in what I fear. "
Shirley Jackson

Kenneth Patchen

 “There are so many little dyings 

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

Edvard Munch

 "A person himself believes that all the other portraits

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

Edgar Allen Poe

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

Alan Turing

 "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

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

Benicio Del Toro

 “I'm not Jack Nicholson. 

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson

 "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

 “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.

 "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

 "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

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, 

and the small nations like prostitutes."
Stanley Kubrick

P. Benchley

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

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

"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

 “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

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

Oscar Wilde

 "I am so clever that sometimes I don't 

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

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

Sir William Herschel

"The undevout astronomer must be mad."

Sir William Herschel

Vladimir Zworykin

 "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

"No great genius has ever existed 

without a strain of madness."
Aristotle

Carl Sagan

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

Terry Pratchett

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

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

"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

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

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

Bobcat Goldthwait

"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

"The power of accurate observation is commonly 

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

David Tennant

"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

“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

 

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

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance

Sigmund Freud

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

Sigmund Freud