Robert Schumann on Art
Friday, February 29th, 2008To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
- Robert Schumann
Archive for February, 2008
Stanislaw Lem on Business
Friday, February 29th, 2008Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
- Stanislaw Lem
Gerard De Nerval on Nature
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
- Gerard De Nerval
Charles Barkley on Sports
Thursday, February 28th, 2008If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
- Charles Barkley
Wendell Berry on History
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Wendell Berry
Bill Vaughn on Age
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
- Bill Vaughn
George Halas on Jobs & Working
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.
- George Halas
Alfred Hitchcock on Movies
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Herbert Hoover on History
Monday, February 25th, 2008I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
- Herbert Hoover
Friedrich Nietzsche on God & Religion
Monday, February 25th, 2008The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
