Buckminster Fuller // "If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them."
George Washington // "Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world."
James Baldwin // "I am what time, circumstance, history, have made me...but I am also so much more than that. So are we all."
Bob Dylan // "I had ambitions to set out and find...this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all...I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?"
Rowan Atkinson // "To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas...even if they are sincerely held beliefs, is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. It all points to the promotion of the idea that there should be a right not to be offended. But in my view, the right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended."
Patricia Highsmith // "Obsessions are the only things that matter."
Larry David // "When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good...that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless."
Nick Cave // "To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame great things can be constructed around it that are massive and powerful and world changing – all held up by the tiniest of ideas."
Paramahansa Yogananda // "If someone is broadcasting hatred, if you are tuned to that hatred, you will get it; but if you are tuned to love, no matter how many hateful vibrations are sent, you will not get them. You must cultivate love in your heart, for it is the magnetism that draws souls to you and it is the dagger that kills hatred." 🇧🇪
Marianne Faithfull // "The thing about the really interesting women is that they don't actually care that much."
Tilda Swinton // "It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien."
Hunter S. Thompson // "Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.