Peter Berger on History

October 20th, 2006

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

- Peter Berger

Salvador Dali on Art

October 19th, 2006

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

- Salvador Dali

James H. Boren on Science

October 19th, 2006

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

- James H. Boren

Galileo Galilei on God & Religion

October 18th, 2006

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

- Galileo Galilei

Gail Godwin on Knowledge & Learning

October 18th, 2006

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

- Gail Godwin

Coco Chanel on Business

October 17th, 2006

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

- Coco Chanel

Albert Pike on Death

October 17th, 2006

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

- Albert Pike

Thomas A. Edison on Business

October 16th, 2006

Hell, there are no rules here - we’re trying to accomplish something.

- Thomas A. Edison

Spiro T. Agnew on Politics

October 15th, 2006

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.

- Spiro T. Agnew

Jonathan Swift on Government

October 14th, 2006

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

- Jonathan Swift