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[May. 8th, 2024|01:08 am] |
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
~ Harry S. Truman |
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[May. 7th, 2024|04:40 am] |
"There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse."
~ David Hume |
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[May. 6th, 2024|04:22 am] |
"The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents."
"Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible."
~ Orson Welles |
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[May. 5th, 2024|01:38 am] |
"In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke."
~ Soren Kierkegaard |
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[May. 4th, 2024|01:10 am] |
"We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered."
~ Thomas Huxley |
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[May. 3rd, 2024|01:54 am] |
"Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music."
~ Pete Seeger |
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[May. 2nd, 2024|06:24 am] |
"You can never forget the time you are living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living in is the most important thing."
~ Donatella Versace |
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[May. 1st, 2024|03:45 am] |
"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."
~ Joseph Addison |
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[Apr. 30th, 2024|01:56 am] |
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss |
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[Apr. 29th, 2024|03:25 am] |
"If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone."
~ Willie Nelson |
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[Apr. 28th, 2024|03:26 am] |
"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent."
~ Harper Lee |
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[Apr. 27th, 2024|12:59 am] |
"We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What has happened to salt and light?"
~ John Stott |
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[Apr. 26th, 2024|12:26 am] |
"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone."
~ Marcus Aurelius |
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[Apr. 25th, 2024|05:20 am] |
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
~ Ella Fitzgerald |
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