Thomas Edison // "If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
Lauren Bacall // "I am not a has-been. I am a will be."
Gil Scott-Heron // "No matter how far wrong you've gone, you can always turn around."
Chuck Close // "Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own."
Dorothy Parker // "Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."
Boris Pasternak // "It's a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. It shows he isn't a type. If he were, it would be the end of him as a man. But if you can't place him in a category, it means that at least part of him is what a human being ought to be."
David Hockney // "Most artists work all the time...especially good artists. I mean, what else is there to do?"
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe // "I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
Edmund Hillary // "People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
George Bernard Shaw // "It's all that the young can do for the old...to shock them and keep them up to date."
Marie Curie // "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
George Balanchine // "Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for – for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now."