Audrey Hepburn // "I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment."
Hunter S. Thompson // "We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and...in spite of true romance magazines...we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely...at least, not all the time...but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness."
Dalai Lama // "We must look inside."
Jack Kerouac // "And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind."
Walt Whitman // "A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls."
Michel Foucault // "What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?"
Muhammad Ali // "I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others."
David Lynch // "Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful."
Marlene Dietrich // "He is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."
James Baldwin // "Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone... Most of us are not compelled to linger with the knowledge of our aloneness, for it is a knowledge that can paralyze all action in this world. There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed. None of these things can be done alone. But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist...is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place."
Romy Schneider // "You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now."
Marlon Brando // "Never let the audience know how it’s going to come out. Get them on your time. And when that time comes and everything is right, you just let it fly. Hit them. Knock them over with an attitude, with a word, with a look. Be surprising. Figure out a way to do it like it has never been done before. You want to stop that movement from the popcorn to the mouth. Get people to stop chewing. The truth will do that. Damn damn damn damn, when it’s right, it’s right. You can feel it in your bones. Then you feel whole and you feel good."