John Coltrane // "I want to be a force for real good...I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good."
Maggie Smith // "Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes."
David Lynch // "Stories come out from where we live and what we hear and see and feel, so I don’t know what will come next. It’s like fishing: You just wait... It’s like I always say, “The chef cooks the fish, the chef doesn’t make the fish.” Desire is the bait, the fish is caught, and then the chef cooks it. Ideas are like fish. They just come to you sometimes, and when you’re really lucky, you fall in love with them and know exactly what to do."
Albert Einstein // "At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself."
Coco Chanel // "Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."
Christina Ricci // "As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct."
Vincent Van Gogh // "I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, 'He feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'"
Jacques Cousteau // “Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.”
Amy Winehouse // "I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied...as someone who was a pioneer."
Gertrude Stein // "A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing."
Wendell Berry // "We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make an effort to know the world..."
Tilda Swinton // "I was on a train when I was 10 and I was going back to school and I was really miserable. I was on this carriage and I suddenly became aware that nobody on this carriage would be able to know how miserable I was. That it was possible to feel something and not show on your face, that was really mind-blowing."