Veritas

"As great powers lose, they can learn a great deal about themselves."
- Professor Marvin Kalb

308 GTS

"To risk and fail and pick yourself up and start again is how you learn."
- Tom Selleck

Je Suis

"Accomplish much while appearing to do little."

- Benjamin Franklin on the French ethic

delusion

"Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself."
- Gene Simmons

weather it

"If I was to go by the amount of rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago."
- Mike Myers

africa

In 1486 a giraffe was released into Florence. It roamed freely for three weeks before dying.

quart

Winston Churchill drank 2 pints of whiskey daily.

where to go for Polish in Detroit

http://www.polonia-restaurant.net

Coco

Conan O'Brien's Dartmouth Commencement address here.

where Mark Twain stayed

http://www.hoteldulouvre.com/en/

creator of the modern poster

autobiographical

"I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth."
- Charlie Chaplin

Epidavros

Best preserved theatre in the ancient world.

dubious

"Sometimes you need to go through bad things to arrive at a good place."
- James Frey

Photo source here.

Montana

"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy ... or they become legend."
- Jim Harrison

style is a product of your deficiencies

"I was so obsessed with getting good grades that I don't think I learned anything."
- High school Valedictorian and 12-time Grammy winner Emmylou Harris  

freedom advocate

A hereditary monarch, observed Thomas Paine, is as absurd a proposition as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

curriculum vitae

a knowing bartender

Edouard Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 1882

Morrisons Garage Ltd

circa 1930

war

"the timeline of war and conflict across the globe"

http://www.conflicthistory.com

fuddle

"I went to brush something off my cheek and it was the floor."

world's most expensive lager

The most expensive lager in the the world is Carlsberg's Jacobsen Vintage No. 1

holiday

"Change in aggravation is like a holiday."

Earthquake Zones and Nuclear Power Plants

Source: here.

我饿了

Twitter

20,000 Twitter accounts generate +50% of all tweets read, out of 200 million registered accounts.

Trusting Instinct

"An artist starts at the bottom of the circle with no knowledge and moves through an education until he or she reaches the top of the circle, at which point they know everything there is to know about their craft and their field and their medium, at which point they become a craftsperson. It's when you move beyond that and and start to move back down forgetting everything you've learned that you come back to a place where you're trusting instinct and your unconscious bliss."
- Michael Stipe

Hitch is Unwell

corporate value system

"Just in case anyone is in danger of forgetting this, the secret to remaining ahead of the pack is not 'Get Fat.' It's 'Stay Hungry.' Creativity doesn't happen without a few constraints. That's why wise use of resources has been a business tradition at Microsoft since the early days, when, to be perfectly honest, there wasn't much choice in the matter. But it remains our practice today, for the simple reason that when you start leaning on your wealth instead of living by your wits, you're in real danger of losing your edge."
- From a 2000 Microsoft 25th Anniversary publication, which also contains the phrase "Excess destroys success."

In 2005, Steve Jobs extolled the virtues of staying hungry here.