genius throw down

"The wind they fart from their asshole."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Alzheimer's

"You forget everything but the grudge."
- Francis Ford Coppola

filing system

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

- Albert Einstein

routine

Vincent van Gogh would typically work from 8am to 5pm with paint sourced from Tanguy.

Lyceum

"Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
- Aristotle

those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

affected the intellectual climate

"Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

rite of passage

Primanti Brothers Sandwiches, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

on academia

"In high-school, I failed music."
- Elvis Presley 

therapeutic breakthrough

"I'm not the worst of what I have done."
- Jay-Z

"transcends time, space"

"A loathsome, offensive brut. But I can't look away."
- Ridiculing art curators, patrons

wedding band significance

"Love without end."

on change

"If you're the same person at 50 as you were at 30, you've wasted 20 years."
- Charles Barkley

grim

"It's tough knowing this much."
- Sean Penn on non-smiling

"courage gives you options"

consult

Psychiatrist

What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets.

Patient

Obviously doctor you've never been a 13 year old girl.

Sofia Coppola, Virgin Suicides 

eastward facing

because "The sun never sets in the east."

warmth and bravado

"It's important to separate one's ability from disability."
- Itzhak Perlman

compliance officer

"You must be willing to have any contemplated act appear on the front page to be read by spouses, children, friends."
- Warren Buffett

Mafia Manifesto

"Never show weakness."

first mover disadvantage

"The bird that flies at the front of the flock is the one they shoot."
- Chinese aphorism 

on being down and out

"Having a powered donut and a cup of rum can feel like paradise."
- Billy Bob Thornton

spring time for Hitler

"There's only one way to get even - bring 'em down with ridicule."
- Mel Brooks

first female renaissance artist

Propertia de Rossi

spectator and central figure

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean."
- Mark Twain, Following the Equator

olympian

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Venn Diagram

"People want a car that you can drive to work on Friday, the drag strip on Saturday and to church on Sunday."
- Lee Iacocca

on ambiguity

"Any idiot can make a decision with perfect information."
- Reza Satchu

"Just because you're not good at the beginning doesn't mean you can't be the best ultimately."
- Former 'C' student astronaut Scott Kelly

life philosophy

"Disparagement."
- Henry Ford particularly to his son Edsel