Mortimer J. Adler // "Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack the resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually."
Sylvia Plath // "Remember, remember, this is now...and now...and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted."
Hermann Hesse // "Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again."
Elvis Costello // "Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere."
Salvador Dalí // Walt Disney
Edwin Land // "My motto is...Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible."
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."
