Neil deGrasse Tyson // "There's as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe."
Mike Tyson // "No one wants to get up at 4 am and run when it's pitch dark, but it has to be done. And the only reason why I do it so early is because I believe that the other guy isn't doing it and it gives me a little edge."
José Saramago // "Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in one's eyes."
Helmut Newton // "I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person."
Ricky Gervais // "The best advice I've ever received is: No one else knows what they're doing either."
Keith Haring // "In every culture, people have attempted to depict their world as they see it and feel it. Images have been drawn, scratched, sprayed, carved, baked or painted in whatever materials were available to that culture at that particular time... It is part of mankind's way of reaffirming and celebrating its existence."
Annie Dillard // "Spend it all, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place...give it, give it all, give it now. Something more will arise for later, something better."
Susan Sontag // "Do stuff...not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead."
Wynton Marsalis // "When I was...in high school, all my teachers and advisors said: 'Don't major in music because it's too difficult to make a living. You need a 'real' profession to fall back on when the dream dies...' When I talked to my father...he said: 'Make sure you don't have anything to fall back on...because you will. This is not for the faint of heart.'"
Jorge Luis Borges // "If I could live my life again..I wouldn't try to be so perfect. I'd be more relaxed... I'd take fewer things seriously, I'd be less hygienic, I'd take more risks, I'd take more trips, I'd watch more sunsets... I'd eat more ice creams and less lima beans, I'd have more real problems and less imaginary ones... Of course I had moments of happiness but, if I could go back, I'd try to only have good moments. For if you didn't know, this is what life is made of...only moments...don't lose this one right now."
Josephine Baker // "To realize our dreams, we must wake up."
Jack Kerouac // "It always makes me proud to love the world somehow...hate's so easy compared."