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.