"... ginger shall be hot i' the mouth." - Shakespeare

point of view

"Each generation gets better looking."
- Larry David

"When we look at history ... the objects traditionally tell us about the civility of the time."
- Karim Rashid

a way to describe it

"Four-year fresco"

Sport Sullivan: You know what you feed a dray horse in the morning if you want a day's work out of him?

Jimmy: What?

Sport Sullivan: Just enough so he knows he's hungry.

"ATMs created more jobs than they eliminated."
- Steve Forbes

"The moment of truth for an artist is confronting a blank canvas: 'What am I going to do?'"
- Frank Gehry

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"I've been like a boy playing on the seashore diverting myself and now and then finding myself another smooth pebble or prettier shell than usual, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered."
- Issac Newton

A new web series by Jerry Seinfeld here.

"The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion no matter how persistent."
- Einstein

public private debate

"The Wright brothers figured out how to fly for $500 - the Smithsonian failed to do it for $50,000."
-Newt Gingrich

theory of art

"Great artists take incredible leaps and take big chances. Picasso did it. Dylan."
- Museum Curator

change

"Smile, Jim. They're customers, not suspects."
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"I've had the opportunity to meet a whole bunch of people across the world - from the Russian President down to Warren Buffet - and you hear the same story over and over: 'I had to stick through the times that I was in.' You have to change. You're constantly changing in our business.
- Jim Treliving

start

"Is starting hard? You know it is. I don't know what you do when you start, but I clean my desk; I make a lot of stupid appointments that sound important; avoidance, delay, denial. I'm always scared that I'm not going to know what to do. It's a terrifying moment. And then when I start, I'm always amazed: 'Oh, that wasn't so bad.'"
- Frank Gehry

distorted thinking

"Just because I think something doesn't necessarily mean that it's true."
- Cognitive Therapy 101

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"A frog in the well doesn't know the big ocean, however he knows the height of the sky."
- Japanese proverb as related by Tabaimo

"Both a curse and a blessing to live in interesting times."
- Paraphrase of an ancient Chinese proverb

"All that's required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
- Sentiment attributed or misattributed to Edmund Burke

"I'm sorry about the long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one."
- Blaise Pascal

The guillotine was the standard method of execution in France until 1981, when capital punishment was outlawed.

"What makes a work of art great is ambiguity."
- Eric Kandel

m.o.

"Put more IQ on the problem."

- Bill Gates

"When I was young, I had such a vision of myself; I dreamt I'd be someone to be reckoned with in the world. But one learns one's scale. I have such a dread of ending my days alone."
- Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal 

"The key to acting is to look unwatched."
- Tilda Swinton

"In a team you can play to your strengths and hide your weaknesses."
- David Geffen 

maxim

"It's a lot easier to start tough and get nice than it is to start nice then get tougher."
- Coach Pat Summitt, University of Tennessee Lady Vols

"He on the side of technology wins."
- Attributed to Napoleon

"When critics get together they talk about aesthetics. When artists get together they talk about turpentine."
- Attributed to Picasso 

Glenn Frey: People connect – the songs connect with people, and somebody once said something really interesting to me. They said, “People didn’t just listen to the Eagles. They did things to the Eagles.”

They broke up with their girlfriend, (laughter) they got in a car with a bunch of guys and drove from Chicago to California. They asked somebody out that they never had the nerve to. You know what I’m saying? I think there was a big connection.

We were just trying to be as good as the people we admired. Our goals were not any bigger than that, really, but we did a really good job. We learned how to write songs, we learned how to make records, and we had a unique vocal sound. But I really think it’s the songs, and that’s why we’re still around.

"The hardest part is knowing what the customer wants/needs. The easy part is the engineering. And the business comes after that."
- Attributed to Steve Jobs by Kurt Eichenwald