"Let's face it — you are, I am, let's face it, we're dull. Can you tell me one thing that was said or done by anyone here tonight that was funny, startling, or imaginative?"
- James Mason in 1956's Bigger Than Life as Ed Avery

"Sometimes I'll read music then listen to a book on tape."
- Steven Wright

"If all the insects were to disappear from earth, within 50 years all life would end. If all human beings disappeared from earth, within 50 yeas all forms of life would flourish."

- Jonas Salk

"All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as you grow up."
- Pablo Picasso

"The best for the most for the least. That's why we got into mass production."
- Ray Eames

Cheers

"[T]he plain fact is that" alcohol "makes other people, and indeed life itself, a good deal less boring. Kingsley grasped this essential fact very early in life, and (so to speak) never let go of the insight," - Christopher Hitchens [1949-2011]. But there are few people as boring as a drunk when you're sober.

"Good business is the best art."
- Andy Warhol

"When you have eliminated all that is impossible, whatever remains must be the truth, no matter how improbable."

- Sherlock Holmes

poetry

"The more you can boil something down, the better."
- Calvin Trillin

"If you ever want to run for the Presidency of the United States, you have to be prepared to strip naked and take a bath at high-noon in the busiest intersection of your town."
- Attributed to Fred Dutton, JFK Advisor

“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that place.”
- Steve Jobs

"For a writer the centre of the universe is where you are."
- Amos Oz 

process

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Amy Goodman paraphrasing Gandi

organic gardener

"Have nothing in it that's not beautiful or useful."
- Prince Charles

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
- Steve Jobs

mindfulness

"We basically forget 50% of what we have learned in the last 24 hours."
- Attributed to Joshua Foer

"The Blues ain't nothing but a personal catastrophe expressed lyrically."
- Cornel West  

A place to eat in Buffalo

http://www.schwabls.com/

"The Irish have a special talent for suffering ... Anybody who has been in a room full of Irish people knows that the status goes to the person who has had the worst thing happen to them most recently."
- Michael Lewis

John Adams drank a tankard of whiskey daily.

"All creative work is a war against self-conciousness; self-conciousness is the enemy of creativity."
- James L. Brooks

ancient greek

"When we are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself & study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." 
- Epictetus 

sabbatical

"Get right with yourself. That's what life's about."
- Sonny Rollins

Cleveland

Portrait of Nathaniel Olds by Jeptha Homer Wade, 1837

bad

"I don't trust anyone who hasn't been arrested once."
- John Waters

fire

Firefighters' ladder drill: http://bit.ly/n6mI8U

Four

"Out of 58 billion people who have lived on the earth, only 12 of us have walked on the moon."
- Alan Bean

Footlights Revue

"I don't know many people worth knowing who don't have a mind that sometimes leads them astray."
- Stephen Fry

wealth

In 1840 the word millionaire is invented.

radio free europe

"It's really fun to be famous, I'm sorry. And to be looked at and considered successful is great. [But] for every single person in this world who thinks I'm successful and great, there's someone else who thinks I'm a sham and just so full of myself and a walking piece of shit as an artist, and that's ok."
- Michael Stipe