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ART:
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” – Michaelangelo Buonarotti
"From the age of five I have had passion for sketching the form of things, from about the age of fifty I showed a number of drawings, yet of all I drew prior to my seventies there is truly nothing of any great note. When I was seventy-two I finally made out something of the shape of grasses and trees, the structure of birds and other animals, insects, fishes. Therefore when I become eighty I shall have made more progress; in my nineties I shall have penetrated even further the hidden meaning of things; at the age of a hundred I shall have reached the divine mystery, and at one hundred and ten even dots and lines will surely possess a life of their own. I only beg those of you who will live long enough to verify the truth of my words." – Katsushika Hokusai
POLITICS:
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.” - H.L. Mencken
“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.” - Gore Vidal
"Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom." - Plato, The Republic
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an
election." – Otto von Bismarck
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." - T.S. Eliot
"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. " - Ambrose Bierce
RELIGION:
"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night." - Isaac Asimov
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." - Frederick Douglass
"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." - Robert Heinlein
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott
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Don't remember it word for word or who said it, but it was very appropriate for the current situation.
"90 people get sick and everybody wants to wear a mask. 1 million people have AIDs and no one wants to wear a condom."
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"I am a phantom of the opera among dead fish and broken chairs."
--Jack Kerouac in Big Sur
"Let's leave one alive so it can be lonely"
--Arundhati Roy in the God of Small Things (talking about ants, and well, everything else)
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 djnido  posted May 5 2009, 11:25 PM:
“It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.” - Ben Stein
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” - Earnest Benn
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” - Steven Weinberg
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'Defeat Yourself' - Michael Jordan 'The moment you admit your good, is the day you stop trying' - Not sure on original source, but it was from a Holden ad  I live by both of them djnido, your first one is amazing.
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' the moment you admit your good, is the day you stop trying '
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my favorite quote is actually a song from a band in my area called 10 years.
10 Years - Wasteland
Change my attempt good intentions
Crouched over
You were not there
Living in fear
But signs were not really that scarce
Obvious tears
But I will not
Hide you through this
I want you to help
And please see
The bleeding heart perched on my shirt
Die, withdraw
Hide in cold sweat
Quivering lips
Ignore remorse
Naming a kid, living wasteland
This time you've tried
All that you can turning you red
Change my attempt good intentions
Should I, could I
Here we are with your obsession
Should I, could I
Crowned hopeless
the article read living wasteland
This time you've tried
All that you can turning you red
but I will not
Hide you through this
I want you to help
Change my attempt good intentions
Should I, could I
Here we are with your obsession
Should I, could I
Heave the silver hollow sliver
Piercing through another victim
Turn and tremble be judgmental
Ignorant to all the symbols
Blind the face with beauty paste
Eventually you'll one day know
Change my attempt good intentions
Limbs tied, skin tight
Self inflicted his perdition
Should I, could I
Change my attempt good intentions
Should I, could I
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Eddie would go
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"...Study the best Pictures in all Media, from Painting to Photography..."
Alfred Stieglitz
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chiru posted May 6 2009, 09:13 PM:
heal another's heart and in the process you will heal your own - Dan Kelly
the woman cries before the wedding and the man after - unknown
how often misused words generate misleading thoughts - Herbert Spencer
G.House ( ;p love House!!)
Relax, I have just the thing to cheer you up... we're being sued!
Don't go towards the light! ... you'll fall and break your hip
This is Vicodin. It’s mine! You can’t have any! And no, I do not have a pain management problem, I have a pain problem … but who knows? Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m too stoned to tell. So, who wants me?
John, John! We're going to figure out what's wrong with you. First we just need to know one thing..... Have you ever appeared in any pornos?
No, if you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic
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"Bullshit, he hasn't even finished Polo is my life yet, and that is a must. I have the drawings to prove it!"
Ralph Steadman when asked whether he thought Hunter would kill himself.
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"Those who have nothing profound to say have others say it for them."  kidding, here are some of mine: "The ignorant say more than they know, the wise know more than they say" - can't remember "It is the fool who goes to bed worrying about his problems - by morning he is worn out and his problems are the same." - Odin "If your alien isn't weirder than corn, you're not trying hard enough." - 0Kelvin of conceptart.org |
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"Don't you know? The earth will stop spinning if you don't dance on it!" ~ One of the Three Fairy Sisters from MidSummers Night Rave
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I'm old and Old School but not conventional.
Don't you know? The earth will stop spinning if you don't dance on it!
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QUOTE(djnido @ May 5 2009, 11:25 PM) 
“It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.” - Ben Stein
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” - Earnest Benn
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” - Steven Weinberg
You have some great choices here. I especially like the second one.  QUOTE(Tom-Smith @ May 7 2009, 04:38 AM)
"Bullshit, he hasn't even finished Polo is my life yet, and that is a must. I have the drawings to prove it!"
Ralph Steadman when asked whether he thought Hunter would kill himself.
And unfortunately, we know how wrong he was on that score... |
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Nenlith posted May 9 2009, 01:37 PM:
"Do you remeber that place between asleep & awake,
the place where you remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always love you, Peter Pan.
That's where I'll be waiting."
-Quote from J.M. Barrie, Tinkerbell saying to Peter Pan
"The only thing worse than a boy who hates you,
a boy who loves you"
-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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Kafka posted May 10 2009, 06:54 AM:
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true" Friedrich Nietzsche.
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window" Steve Wozniak.
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My favorite, that describes me perfectly:
"Let the sparkly shine out!" -Gravitation
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aeiou posted May 16 2009, 10:23 AM:
"The picture must radiate light, the bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from outside."
Egon Schiele
“A painter is lost when he finds himself.”
Max Ernst
"As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella!"
Comte de Lautréamont
"Art is the wine and love of life.
Stephen Fry
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