Ralph Waldo Emerson // "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Hunter S. Thompson // "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance... You have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else... But you say, 'I don’t know where to look; I don’t know what to look for.' And there’s the crux. Is it worth giving up what I have to look for something better? I don’t know...is it? Who can make that decision but you? But even by deciding to look, you go a long way toward making the choice."
Bill Murray // "I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up."
Marilyn Monroe // "If I'd observed all the rules I'd never have got anywhere."
Yoko Ono (& John Lennon) // "Be silent in a group of people. See what they reveal to you."
Edward Norton // "I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions."
Walt Whitman // "I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen."
Simone de Beauvoir // "Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth."
Jack Nicholson (& Anjelica Huston) // "Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love."
Maya Angelou // "We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do."
George Carlin // "I could never understand ethnic or national pride. Because to me, pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn’t a skill, it’s a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn’t say 'I’m proud to be 5’11”. I’m proud to have a predisposition for colon cancer.' So why the fuck would you be proud to be Irish, or proud to be Italian, or American or anything?"
Simone de Beauvoir // "I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way."