Quote for the Day

[Nearly Sane]

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

Franz Kafka

[Nearly Sane]

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

Gertrude Lawrence

[Aruntraveller]

“Calling bigotry an opinion is like calling arsenic a flavor.”

Attributed to Jack Cameron.

[Nearly Sane]

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

[Nearly Sane]

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
Frida Kahlo

[Nearly Sane]

For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

Marc Chagall

[Nearly Sane]

Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn't even there yet. And it's going to take a long time to change these attitudes.

Kathe Kollwitz

[Nearly Sane]

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

[Nearly Sane]

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla

[Nearly Sane]

As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they are in great strong masses: the buttons are lost, but the sitter remains; the sitter is lost, but the shadow remains; the shadow is lost, but the picture remains. And that, night cannot efface from the painter's imagination.

James McNeill Whistler

[Nearly Sane]

Every day you play with the light of the universe.

Pablo Neruda

[Nearly Sane]

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Wole Soyinka

[Nearly Sane]

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Ingmar Bergman

[Aruntraveller]

“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”
― Frédéric Chopin

[Nearly Sane]

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[Aruntraveller]

 Friedrich Nietzche: “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.”

[Nearly Sane]

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Barbara Stanwyck

[Nearly Sane]

I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

Phyllis Diller

[Nearly Sane]

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Nelson Mandela

[Nearly Sane]

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

Evelyn Glennie

[Nearly Sane]

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Thomas Berger

[Nearly Sane]

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Marshall McLuhan

[Nearly Sane]

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.

George Clinton

[ad_orientem]

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'

- Isaac Asimov

[Nearly Sane]

Don't talk to me about writing; you couldn't write "fuck" on a dusty Venetian blind.

Coral Browne