Elvis Presley // "I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line."
Edmund Hillary // "You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals."
Coco Chanel // "I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
Carlo Scarpa // "If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing."
Colette // "I love my past. I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it."
Rei Kawakubo // "I want to see things differently...I want to find something that nobody has ever found...it is meaningless to create something predictable."
Paul McCartney // John Lennon
Isaac Asimov // "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
Nawal El Saadawi // "To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction."
Haruki Murakami // "Before human beings possessed fire or tools or language, the moon had been their ally. It would calm people's fears now and then by illuminating the dark world like a heavenly lantern. Its waxing and waning gave people an understanding of the concept of time. Even now, when darkness had been banished from most parts of the world, there remained a sense of human gratitude toward the moon and its unconditional compassion. It was imprinted upon human genes like a warm collective memory."
Mos Def // "What I take from writers I like is their economy—their ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability...for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words—that's magical. That's what I've been trying to strive for..."
Pablo Neruda // "To look for originality at all costs is a modern condition...Each person tries to find a road whereby he will stand out, neither for profundity nor for discovery, but for the imposition of a special diversity. The most original artist will change phases in accord with the time, the epoch."