all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.
~ J D Salinger
11.2.03
suffering, brief happiness, pain, is mortal man's destiny.
~Sophocles Oedipus the King
27.1.03
...he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
~ King Solomon
14.1.03
Oh, this happiness is strong stuff. Its marvellously liberating. I'm free...
~ J D Salinger
1.1.03
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
~ John Howard Payne
6.12.02
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
~ Albert Einstein
5.12.02
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
~ William Least Heat Moon
3.12.02
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
~ Herman Melville
30.11.02
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
~ George Bernard Shaw
27.11.02
Keep smiling.
~ R. G. Murray
26.11.02
You always have time to do the things you really want to do.
~ J. Keeney
25.11.02
the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace things, but burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes "AWWW!"
~ Jack Kerouac
24.11.02
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
~ Carl Sandburg
23.11.02
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
~ Dylan Thomas
22.11.02
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
~ Beck
20.11.02
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
~ Drew Barrymore
19.11.02
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
~ Oscar Wilde
17.11.02
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer
16.11.02
Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate.
~J R R Tolkien
15.11.02
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
~T S Eliot
13.11.02
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that was rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.
~W. Beran Wolfe
11.11.02
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
~ Mark Twain
10.11.02
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
~Andre Gide
9.11.02
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
~Jim Hightower of The New York Times
7.11.02
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
~Charles Brower
6.11.02
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
~Bill Vaughan
5.11.02
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
~Voltaire
4.11.02
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
~G K Chesterton
2.11.02
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.
~Donna Summer
31.10.02
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
~Aldous Huxley
30.10.02
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
29.10.02
I had a college president say to me, "I don't know how much longer I can pull this off because people will start to ask, Is it worth this much money to be that much smarter?"
~Bruce Tulgan of RainmakerThinking Inc.
28.10.02
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
~Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
27.10.02
It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
~Helen Keller
26.10.02
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
~Helen Keller
25.10.02
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
~Fred Hoyle
24.10.02
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
~Salman Rushdie
23.10.02
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
~Helen Keller
22.10.02
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
~Bertrand Russell
21.10.02
Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
~Lao-tzu
19.10.02
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
~Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
17.10.02
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
~Anatole France
15.10.02
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
~Lord Chesterfield
14.10.02
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
~Kurt Vonnegut
13.10.02
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
~C S Lewis
12.10.02
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things.
~Ray Bradbury
11.10.02
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
~Albert Einstein
10.10.02
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
~Helen Keller
9.10.02
I'm not Josie Grossie anymore!
~Josie Geller Never Been Kissed
8.10.02
see the storm is broken
in the middle of the night
nothing left here for me
it's washed away
the rain pushes
the buildings aside
the sky turns black
the sky
wash it far
push it out to sea
there's nothing left here
for me
i watch it lift up to the sky
i watch it crush me
and then i die...
~ Moby The Sky Is Broken; Play
