http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBBDRzjYl8

“The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard.”
― George Santayana

“May the fleas and crabs of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch”― Keisha Keenleyside

“Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.”― Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus

“The only source of knowledge is experience”~ Albert Einstein

“First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.” ― Edward Albee, The Zoo Story and Other Plays

“The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.” ― Albert Camus

Epictetus

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.” ― Epictetus

“We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”― Hunter S. Thompson

“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?”― Jess C. Scott, I'm Pretty -yeah u dumb ass?

“An empty tin makes a lot of noise.” ― African Proverb, Kenya

“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.

Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.”
― James Joyce, Chamber Music

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” ― T.S. Eliot

diamonds

“No pressure, no diamonds”― Thomas Carlyle

"What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?"~ Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes

[R.I.P]~“Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.” ― Robert Hughes

Palahniuk

“Remember this. The people you're trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. W...

e direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life.
We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact. So don't fuck with us.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

James Ellroy

“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.” ― James Ellroy

Gore Vidal

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” ― Gore Vidal ~[R.I.P.]