Archive for May, 2006

Mark Twain On Life

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

- Mark Twain

Orson Welles On Movies

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

- Orson Welles

Howard Dietz On Art

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Composers shouldn’t think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

- Howard Dietz

Paul Gauguin On Art

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

- Paul Gauguin

Sarah Orne Jewett On Friendship

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

Andy Warhol On Art

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

- Andy Warhol

Earl Warren On Sports

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.

- Earl Warren

Emmanuel Teney On Faith

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

- Emmanuel Teney

Maurice Maeterlinck On Death

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

Henri B. Stendhal On Love

Friday, May 26th, 2006

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

- Henri B. Stendhal