Nikola Tesla // "Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born."
Pablo Picasso // "When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
Richard Brautigan // "I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word mayonnaise."
Robin Williams // "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
Marlene Dietrich // "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized as wiser than oneself."
Peggy Guggenheim // "I took advice from none but the best...I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert."
Chloe Sevigny // "I wish I had focused on school more. I was really not into academics. That was part of how I rebelled...I think that if I had stuck with it...I probably would be a more confident person now. Which is a boring kind of thing your mother would say to you! But it's honest."
William S. Burroughs // "We're very near a certain point where money doesn't mean anything. They say: How much money is this going to cost? This is really a totally meaningless concept. Money determines less and less our reality. Money is not a constant factor, it's simply a process dependent entirely on acceptance for its existence. We already see situations without money, and I think that we're coming closer and closer to it."
Ray Bradbury // "Everyone must leave something behind when he dies...something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die... It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."
Jean Seberg // "I'm not worried because whether I fail or not, if I do the best job I can do, I'll know within myself that at least I've extended it to my own limits."
Dieter Rams // "Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different."
Haile Selassie // "Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph."