TFLN

I'd like to know where Dora the Explorer's parents are when she goes on all these crazy-ass adventures

Bruni

On me dit que le destin se moque bien de nous
Qu'il ne nous donne rien et qu'il nous promet tout

Carla Bruni

Plato

Music is moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Plato

Andersen

but the most beautiful, she said, was to lie in the moonlight, on a sandbank, in the quiet sea, near the coast, and to gaze on a large town nearby, where the lights were twinkling like hundreds of stars; to listen to the sounds of the music, the noise of carriages, and the voices of human beings, and then to hear the merry bells peal out from the church steeples; and because she could not go near to all those wonderful things, she longed for them more than ever.

Hans Christian Andersen

Wyndham Lewis

Life is the Past and the Future.
The Present is Art.

Percy Wyndham Lewis

Nico

Do I stay or do I go
And maybe finally spit the ride?

Nico

Hemingway

They were seated in the boat, Nick in the stern, his father rowing. The sun was coming up over the hills. Nick trailed his hand in the water. It felt warm in the sharp chill of the morning.

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite certain he would never die.

Ernest Hemingway

Lincoln

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.  I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. 

Abraham Lincoln

White

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

E B White

Godspeed You Black Emperor!

we’ve been plowing our little field up here for a couple of years now, but the yard is still filled with rocks and dust and sick trees…so we bide our time, waiting for a purer kick to bloom…& the future is still bleak, uncertain and beautiful…and the van is gassed but the pistons are cracked, and when we close our eyes alls we can see is: open road, telephone poles, a sun that is always setting & a tangled up melody.

Godspeed You Black Emperor!

Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai
The world is a book, those who do not travel read only one page

Emerson

Speed on a galloping horse is a narcotic, as addictive as booze, cigarettes or "pick your poison!" That`s why riders will suffer the pains of the damned, Saturday mornings, with performance anxiety nerves, so they can do THIS later in the day.

Denny Emerson

Stefani

I can see that you're angry,
From the way that you treat me;
Hopefully you won't leave me,
I want to take you with me.

Gwen Stefani

Stanford Yearbook

Polo teaches daring and skillful horsemanship, a love and respect for horseflesh, a true eye and hand, and courage that few other games can instill.

Stanford Yearbook 1924

Schiele

There will always be misunderstandings between myself and others. But now praise of misunderstanding do not matter any more!

Egon Schiele's last words

Adams

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth.

Robert Adams

Johnson

When blood is the beverage of choice, it's best obtained with a sharp set of fangs.

Robby Johnson

Adams

I think now of the blackened driftwood - of the air and light, of the sea, rocks, surf, and trees - it was a world largely complete - for a moment, in that air, it was perfect.

Robert Adams

Elliot

If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees 
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop 
But there is no water

TS Elliot

Powell

But I was at last funneled into not a gas chamber, but a glaring white supermarket the size of a stadium, where for the price of the existential horror felt upon witnessing families buying two carts full of RC Cola and generic cheese doodles, or a lonely older man purchasing three dozen packages of ramen and four cartons of no-pulp orange juice, I could procure sugar cubes.

Julie Powell

Young

She's got pictures on the wall,
They make me look up
From her big brass bed;
Now I'm running down the road,
Trying to stay up
Somewhere in her head.

Neil Young

Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. This is my Religion.

- Abraham Lincoln

Adams

If i like many photographers, and I do I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. hey may or may not make a piving by photographer, but they are alive by it.

Robert Adams

Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I know about life: It goes on."

Robert Frost

Adams

I think it is because they've known a miracle. They've been given what they did not earn, and as is the way with unexpected gifts, the surprise carries an emotional blessing.

Robert Adams

Taylor

Oh, hold them up, hold them up
Never do let them fall
Prey to the dust and the rust and the ruin
That names us and claims us and shames us all

JT

Smith

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and open a vein.

Red Smith

Cooke

you know it won't be very long, 'til we meet him in the sky
and then I'll shout and sing with angels round the throne
I'm getting rady for that day child,
you know it won't be very very long

Will you be ready then?
Just to meet the ransom's call
You better get ready for the day child

You know it won't be very long
til I receive my starry crown
I know it won't be very long
til all my burdens I lay down
and when I run this race,
I'm going to see my savior's face,
I'm getting ready for that day child,
you know it won't be very long.

Sam

Nico

Now that I smile,
Now that I'm laughing even deeper inside.
Now that I see,
Now that I finally found the one thing I denied
It's now I know do I stay or do I go
And it is finally I decide
That I'll be leaving
In the fairest of the seasons.

Nico

The Sound of Music

Let them bring on all the problems;
I'll do better than my best.

The Sound of Music

Cook

"I'm not a big fan of cold water, but the humiliation kept me warm"

Tina Cook, on taking a dunking in the Lake at Badminton

CSN

She is all that I have left,
And music is her name.

CSN

Warhol

In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, and that the inner worlds of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed.... Freud's classic distinction between the latent and manifest content of the dream, between the apparent and the real, now needs to be applied to the external world of so- called reality.

Warhol

Gaga

Hello baby did you call?
I couldn't hear a thing;
I have got no reception in the club you see.

Gaga

Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

Whitman

O you youths, Western youths,
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship,
Plain I see you Western youths, see you tramping with the foremost,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Walt Whitman

Ali

Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Muhammed Ali

Patton

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed.

Patton

Bruni

pourtant quelqu'un m'a dit...
Que tu m'aimais encore,
C'est quelqu'un qui m'a dit que tu m'aimais encore.
Serais ce possible alors ?

Carla Bruni

Krauss

Oh my darling, my darling,
My heart breaks as you take your long journey.

Alison Krauss & Robert Plant

Lewis

"Use?" replied Reepicheep. "Use, Captain? If by use you mean filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it would be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as ever I heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours."

CS Lewis

Elliot

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow 
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

TS Elliot

Stafford

I drink it for luck, that star in
my cup, after the campfire goes out.
In the morning I feel great. See, the
sun follows me like a big dog.

William Stafford

Nico

These day I sit at corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten
Place don't confront me with my failures
I have not forgotten yet

Nico

Sherman

I am sick and tired of fighting—its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands and fathers ... tis only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.

William Tecumseh Sherman