“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.”
Douglas Adams, on Windows 95

"Music, the greatest good that mortals know
And all of heaven we have below."
Joseph Addison

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler

"In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary."
Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."
Woody Allen

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."
Aristotle

"Wit is educated insolence."
Aristotle

"Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life."
Antonin Artaud

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"
Jane Austen

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."
Johann Sebastian Bach

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
Walter Bagehot

"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."
Pearl Bailey

"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
Russell Baker

"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."
Tallulah Bankhead

"The good die young -- because they it's no use in living if you've got to be good."
John Barrymore

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher

"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"
Ludwig Van Beethoven

"True art is selfish and perverse -- it will not submit to the mold of flattery."
Ludwig Van Beethoven

"This wisdom descendeth not from above, it is earthly, sensual, devilish."
The Bible, James 3:15

"Egotist: A person more interested in himself than in me."
Ambrose Bierce

"Exuberance is Beauty."
William Blake

"If a thing loves, it is infinite."
William Blake

"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
William Blake

"The lust of the goat is the bounty of God."
William Blake

"Only the suppressed word is dangerous."
Ludwig Bsrne

"They don't walk, they just glide in and out of life. They never die, they just go to sleep one day."
David Bowie, "Sons of the Silent Age"

"I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent."
Ashleigh Brilliant

"Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness."
Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls

"The devil's most devilish when respectable."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Grow old with me!
The best is yet to be..."
Robert Browning

Misled by fancy's meteor ray,
By passion driven;
But yet the light that led astray,
Was light from heaven.
Robert Burns, "The Vision"

"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword."
Robert Burton

"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure."
Lord Byron

"Hasten slowly."
Augustus Caesar

"Can you imagine the silence if everyone said only what he knows?"
Karel Capek

“I can’t go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll

"The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none."
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand

"The only difference between reality and fiction is fiction has to make sense."
Tom Clancy

Conway's Law:
In every organization there is one person who knows what is going on.
This person must be fired.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan,
A stately pleasure dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleride, "Kubla Khan"

QFM: Quelle fashion mistake. "It was really QFM, I mean painter pants? That's 1979 beyond belief."
Douglas Coupland, Generation X

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
Douglas Coupland, Generation X

"to be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you just like everybody else-is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight, and never stop fighting."
e.e. cummings

"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."
Charles G. Dawes

"Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality."
Emily Dickinson

"Only the passions, only great passions, can elevate the mind to great things."
Denis Didrot

"In science, one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
Paul Dirac

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your own."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
Arthur Conan Doyle

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” — Arthur Conan Doyle

"When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind."
John Dryden

When I close my eyes, I see the flames of truth, dancing to the malevolent rhythms of the night. Dancing, Dancing in the windows of my mind.
Ebony

"The music is a living thing. You have to listen to it and let it breath."
from the movie Eddie and the Cruisers

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
-Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who no longer pauses to wonder and stand in rapt awe, is as good as dead."
Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities."
Albert Einstein

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot

"Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning."
T. S. Eliot

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
T. S. Eliot

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
T. S. Eliot

"No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."
T. S. Eliot

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Art is a jealous mistress."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every hero becomes at last a bore."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
Susan Ertz

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
Carrie Fisher

"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."
R. I. Fitzhenry

"One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a solider."
Gustave Flaubert

"Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French for 'life jacket'."
Julian Barnes, from Gustave Flaubert's Parrot

"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer."
E. M. Forster, Howard's End

"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake."
E. M. Forster

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."
Anatole France

"The good critic is one who tells of is mind's adventures among masterpieces."
Anatole France

"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality."
Victor Frankel

"I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
Robert Frost

"Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired."
Robert Frost

"Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
Robert Frost

“640K ought to be good enough for anybody.”
Bill Gates

"To love one who also loves you, to admire one who admires you, in a word, to be the idol of one's idol is exceeding the limit of human joy, it is stealing fire from heaven."
Madame de Gerardio

Faint heart never won fair lady!
Nothing venture, nothing win
Blood is thick, but water's thin
In for a penny, in for a pound
It's Love that makes the world go 'round!
Sir William Schwenk Gilbert, "Iolanthe"

"All change is not growth; all movement not forward."
Ellen Glasgow

"The unnatural, that too is natural."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Create, artist! Do not talk!"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"We all enter this world in the same way: naked, screaming, and soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there."
Dana Gould

"Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art."
Remy de Gourmont

"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
Paul Guaguin

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
Sacha Guitry

"Man is a reasoning rather than reasonable animal."
Alexander Hamilton

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
Lucille S. Harper

"Love is a hole in the heart."
Ben Hecht

"Always listen to experts.  They'll tell what can't be done and why.  Then do it."
Robert A. Heinlein

"There is nothing permanent except change."
Heraclitus

"You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational -- and probably sexual!"
George Herman, A Company of Wayward Saints

"No arts, no letters -- no society."
Thomas Hobbes

"Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important."
Lisa Hoffman

"Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society."
David Hull

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

"A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain."
Leigh Hunt

"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
Henry James

If we could not laugh, we could not bear to cry. If we could not cry, we could not bear to live.
Japenese proverb

"Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence."
Francis Jeffrey

"Liturature is a state of culture; poetry is a state of grace."
Juan Ram—n Jim*nez

"You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest."
John Keats

Darkling I listen, and for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme
John Keats

"Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say, why not?"
Robert F. Kennedy

“Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.”
Steve Landesberg

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
Stephen King

"When it is for lust we are blamed, it is love we are denied."
Brian Kinsman

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Rudyard Kipling

"The Devil whispered behind the leaves, 'It's pretty, but is it Art?"
Rudyard Kipling

"It's not peace I want, not mere contentment. It's boundless joy and ecstasy for me."
Kugell

"Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic."
James Laver

"Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition."
D. H. Lawrence

"Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home."
Tom Lehrer

"The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting."
Gloria Leonard

"People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself."
Doris Lessing

"Insanity is hereditary: you can get it from your children."
Sam Levenson

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
A. J. Liebling

“What we see depends on mainly what we look for.”
John Lubbock

"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
Christopher Marlowe

"Glory paid to our ashes comes too late."
Martial

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
Abraham H. Maslow

"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
W. Somerset Maugham

"Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art."
Charles McCabe

"It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it only takes a few determined leaders and a sound cause."
H.L. Mencken

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
H. L. Mencken

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish."
Michelangelo

"Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly."
Moliere

"Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell."
George Moore

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything-a good reason and the real reason."
J.P. Morgan

"You mustn't be surprised to see people drop in here and spend several hours reading. Lots of them look on this as a kind of club."
Chirstopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop

"Perhaps I'm unique because people are so dull. I'm not very good at being dull."
Morrisey

"The Night is young
and full of rest
I can't describe the
way she's dressed
She'll pander to some
strange requests
Anything that you suggest
Anything to please
her guest"
Jim Morrison

"Day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Try to run
Try to hide
Break on through to the other side!"
James Douglas Morrison

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
Vladimir Nabokov

"The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds."
Jawaharial Nehru

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"
Friedrich Nietzsche

"Nothing is less real than Realism.  Details are confusing.  It is only by elimination, by emphasis that we get at the real meaning if things."
Georga Okeefe, 1922

"Making an object look like what you see is not as important as making the whole square you paint feel like what you feel avout the object."
Georga Okeefe, 1929

"It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art."
Walter Pater

"I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound-if I can remember any of the damn things."
Dorothy Parker

"Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right."
Donald Culross Peattie, An Almanac for Moderns

"Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be acheinved only through persistent exercise of real love."
M. Scott Peck, M.D.

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
Laurence J. Peter

"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."
William Lyon Phelps

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
Pablo Picasso

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well."
Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus"

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
Edgar Allen Poe, "Eleonora"

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore
(translates to)
"I lived for art, I lived for love"
Giacomo Puccini, Tosca

"Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion."
Kate Reid

"Your god is dead and no one cares."
Trent Reznor

But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end
as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you,
shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony,
and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.
Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Sonnets to Orpheus"

"I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal."
Arthur Rimbaud, "Ma Boheme, Fantaisie"

"I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses."
Arthur Rimbaud

"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need."
Rodin

"The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die."
Will Rogers

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
-Theodore Roosevelt

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
Theodore Rossevelt

"I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four."
Joel Rosenberg, The Warrior Lives

"Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise."
Duc de La Rouchefoucauld

"Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains."
Giovanni Ruffini

"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."
John Ruskin, Modern Painters

"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example."
John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
George W. Russell

"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you."
Francoise Sagan

"The realist is the man who, having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless."
Raoul de Sales

"A book given at the right moment can work magic in a child's life.
Ann Schlee"

"Rebelion is a quick and easy way of standing out, as opposed to working hard at becoming something special."
Laura Schlessinger, Ph. D.

"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one."
Seneca

"We kiss. And it feels like we have shrugged off the world."
Jim Shahin

"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet."
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

All the world's a stage
And all men are and women merely players
They have their exits and entrances
And one man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespheare, As You Like It

"I am tired and sick of war.  Its glory is all moonshine... War is hell."
General Sherman

"I don't know why I did it,
I don't know why I enjoyed it,
and I don't know why I'll do it again."
Bart Simpson

I would go out tonight
But I haven't got a stitch to wear
this man said, "it's gruesome
that someone so handsome should care."
the Smiths,"This Charming Man"

"Love, you mock us for your sport."
Sophocles, Antiogne

"Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilized life."
Herbert Spencer

"Hero worship is strongest where there is the least regard for human freedom."
Herbert Spencer

"Irresponsibility isn't a sickness -- it's an art."
Remington Steele

"No man becomes a fool until he stops asking questions."
Charles Steinmetz

"Since every record released surely contains something offensive to someone, sticker them all.  Make this as meaningless as the bar code."
Michael Stipe

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
My hunger for her explains everything I've done
Sting, "Sister Moon"

"What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist."
Tom Stoppard

I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive but I can't do you love and rhetoric without blood. Blood is compulsory -- they're all blood you see.
Tom Stoppard

"Ink drips from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry."
Mark Strand

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
Elizabeth Taylor

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."
Hunter S. Thompson

"Things do not change, we do."
Henry David Thoreau

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau

"If you have build castles in the air,
you work need not be lost;
that is where they shoule be.
Now put the foundations under them."
Henry David Thoreau

"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen."
Leo Tolstoy

"Never laught at live dragons!"
JRR Tolking, "The Hobbit"

"The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself."
Mark Twain

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Mark Twain

"If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be--a Christian."
Mark Twain

"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have friends in both places."
Mark Twain

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
Mark Twain

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
Mark Twain

"What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before."
Mark Twain

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
Mark Twain

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
Mark Twain

"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."
Mark Twain

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
Mark Twain

"Classic: A book which people praise and don't read."
Mark Twain

"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water."
Mark Twain

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."
Mark Twain

"Always obey your parents when they are present."
Mark Twain

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."
Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
Mark Twain

"Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain

"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
Mark Twain

"It ain't what you don't know that's so harmful, it's what you know that just ain't so."
Mark Twain

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't."
Mark Twain

"The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education."
Mark Twain

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said that I didn't know."
Mark Twain

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society."
Mark Twain

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?"
Mark Twain

"When in doubt tell the truth."
Mark Twain

"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."
Mark Twain

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."
Mark Twain

"If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat."
Mark Twain

"A baby is a inestimable blessing and a bother."
Mark Twain

"Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass."
Mark Twain

"There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
Mark Twain

"Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right."
Mark Twain

"The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become."
Mark Twain

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
Paul Valery

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
Voltaire

"I disaprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Voltaire

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick."
-Tom Waits

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."
Simone Weil

"An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic."
H. G. Wells

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
H. G. Wells

"Love isn't an emotion or an instinct -- it's an art."
Mae West

"Too much of a good thing is wonderful."
Mae West

"An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises."
Mae West

"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity -- the dread of doing what has been done before."
Edith Wharton

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
-Katherine Whitehorn

animal whisperings intoxicate the night
hypnotize the desperate, slow motion light
wash away into the rain, blood, milk and sky
hollow moons illuminate, and beauty never dies
White Zombie, "Blood Milk and Sky"

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde

"Truth is rarely pure, and never simple."
Oscar Wilde

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
Oscar Wilde

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Oscar Wilde

"Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."
Oscar Wilde

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
Oscar Wilde

"There is one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde

"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent."
Oscar Wilde

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
Oscar Wilde

"I like the word 'indolence.' It makes my laziness seem classy."
Bern Williams

"Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job."
James Woods

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
Virginia Woolf

"The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time."
William Wordsworth

"I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."
William Wordsworth

Sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood,
and felt along the heart.
William Wordsworth

"Costumes are so much better than clothes. They're like drugs, they change your personality."
Mary Woronov, Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"Every great architect is -- necessarily -- a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best, it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards.  I got a full house and four people died."
Steven Wright

"Architecture is not a goal. Architecture is for life and pleasure and work and for people. The picture frame, not the picture."
William Wurster

In any man who dies, there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... No people die but worlds die in them.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first...when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
-Paramahansa Yogananda

Bill of Rights: Void where prohibited by law.

I don’t have an attitude; people are just annoying.

My life may be strange, but at least it’s not boring!

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.

You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

PMS allows a woman, once a month, to act like men do EVERY DAY.

Censors are people who know more than they think you ought to.

I am a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing.

Oblivion: An escape from everyday mindlessness.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

History repeats itself, but each time the price goes up.

Anything not nailed down is mine. Anything I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Meekness is uncommon patience in planning a worthwhile revenge.

If you can keep your head while all about you, others are losing theirs...perhaps you’re the executioner.

I respect Faith, but Doubt is what gets you an education.

2 ears, 1 mouth...  Use in that order and you’ll do fine.

A friend is a person who knows you and still likes you.

Check your seatbelt. I wanna try something...

Fact of life #15: Heads bleed, walls don’t.

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

Any day when you’re looking down at the dirt instead of up at the dirt is a good day.

I’m out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...

Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.

Hero-worship is mostly idol gossip.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
 
 

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