Quotes 10/14- Schopenhauer, Paul McCartney

"It is another instance of the obligatory optimism of these religions, which denounces self-destruction so as not to be denounced by it"- Schopenhauer




"Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs.
And whats wrong with that? I'd like to know, cause here I go again"- Paul McCartney

Quotes 10/12- Groucho Marx, The Young Rascals

"Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do"- Groucho Marx





"Now baby it's for sure, I got the fever and you've got the cure"- The Young Rascals

Quotes 10/8- James A. Garfield, Jim Reeves

"I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table"- James A. Garfield






"I'll still love you 'til the breath in my body is gone.
That's how it is with me
And you'll always be
The only love I ever knew"
- Jim Reeves

Quotes 10/7- Al Capone, The Third Bardo

"This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses"-Al Capone




"I'm five years ahead of my time"- The Third Bardo

Quotes 10/6- Hegel, Bob Dylan

"Only one man ever understood me. And he didn't understand me"- Hegels last words



"I never did know the score"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 10/5- Lord Byron, Jay-Z

The glory and the nothing of a name.- Lord Byron




"My name is HOV"- Jay-Z

Quotes 10/4- Schiller, The Ramones

"The law has cramped the flight of eagles to a snail's pace. The law never yet made a great man, but freedom will breed a giant, a colossus"- Friedrich Schiller



"Mr.Programmer I got my hammer
And I'm gonna smash my radio"-The Ramones

Quotes 10/3- Rocky Marciano, Paul Westerberg

"That was a fucking dumb question. If I didn't think I was gonna win, why the hell would I be fighting?"- Rocky Marciano




"Look me in the eye
Then, tell me that I'm satisfied"- Paul Westerberg

Quotes 10/2- Charles Darwin, The Rolling Stones

"We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence"- Darwin



"Mama says yes, Papa says no,
Make up you mind 'cause I gotta go.
I'm gonna raise hell at the Union Hall,
Drive myself right over the wall.

Rip this joint, gonna save your soul,
Round and round and round we go.
Roll this joint, gonna get down low,
Start my starter, gonna stop the show"- The Rolling Stones

Quotes 10/1- Matthew Arnold, Townes van Zandt

"What helps it now, that Byron bore,
With haughty scorn which mocked the smart,
Through Europe to the Aetolian shore
The pageant of his bleeding heart?"- Matthew Arnold




"Poets tell how Pancho fell, and Lefty's living in a cheap hotel
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold,
And so the story ends we're told
Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too
He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old"- Townes van Zandt

Quotes 9/30- Christina Rossetti, Lou Reed

"love understands the mystery, whereof
we can but spell a surface history;
Love knows, remembers: let us trust in love:
Love understands the mystery"- Christina Rossetti



"And some kinds of love
Are mistaken for vision"- Lou Reed

Quotes 9/29- Spiro Agnew, David Bowie

"A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals"- Spiro Agnew



"Come out of the garden, baby. You'll catch your death in the fog. Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs"- David Bowie

Quotes 9/28- James Dean, Elton John

"They say you can't get it on with a girl in a Porsche. That's bullshit. If you don't believe me, ask Natalie".- James Dean




"And all the folks back home said I was a fool"- Elton John

Quotes 9/27- Dr. Jonas Salk, Kurt Cobain

"There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"- Jonas Salk




"In the pines, in the pines
Where the sun don't ever shine
I would shiver the whole night through"- Kurt Cobain (Song by Leadbelly)

Quotes 9/26- Trotsky, Binnie Hale

"Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full"

L. Trotsky
February 27, 1940
Coiyoacan.




"The fundamental things apply
As time goes by"- Binnie Hale

Quotes 9/24- Freud, Eric Burdon and the Animals

"Psychoanalysis here confirms what the pious were wont to say, that we are all miserable sinners"- Sigmund Freud




"I'm an animal"- Eric Burdon and the Animals

Quotes 9/23- Kierkegaard, Lynyrd Skynyrd

"Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception"- Kierkegaard





"Lord knows, I can't change"- Lynyrd Skynyrd

Quotes 9/18- Hemingway, The Dubliners

"If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."- Hemingway



"Out from many a mud wall cabin eyes were watching through the night
Many a manly heart was beating for the blessed warning light
Murmurs rang along the valleys to the banshees lonely croon
And a thousand pikes were flashing by the rising of the moon"- The Dubliners

Quotes 9/16- Proust, Springsteen

"It had been rendered supple and sensitive down to its smallest cells, like the instrument of a great violinist in whom, when one says that he produces a beautiful sound, one means to praise not a physical property but a superiority of soul"- Proust (translated by Mark Treharne)





"When the change was made uptown and the big man joined the band, from the coastline to the city all the little pretties raised their hands"- Bruce
Springsteen

Quotes 8/11- Marcel Proust, Kris Kristofferson

"Maybe it is the nothingness that is real and our entire dream is nonexistent, but in that case we feel that these phrases of music, and these notions that exist in relation to our dream, must also be nothing. We will perish, but we have for hostages these divine captives who will follow us and share our fate. And death in their company is less bitter, less inglorious, perhaps less probable"- Marcel Proust



"Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow's out of sight.
And it's sad to be alone. Help me make it through the night"- Kris Kristofferson

Quotes 8/8- Oscar Wilde, Wilco

“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works"- Oscar Wilde



"The best song will never get sung, The best life never leaves your lungs"- Wilco

Quotes 8/4, Marcel Proust, Bob Dylan

"Whether it is that the faith which creates has dried up in me, or that reality takes shape in memory alone, the flowers I am shown today for the first time do not seem to me to be real flowers"- Marcel Proust



"Well I'm wearing the cloak of misery
And I've tasted jilted love
And the frozen smile upon my face
Fits me like a glove

Well I can't escape from the memory
Of the one that I'll always adore
All those nights when I lay in the arms
Of the girl from the red river shore
"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 7/29, Schopenhauer, Lotte Lenya

"What I respect is truth, therefore I can't respect what opposes truth. Just as the jurist's motto is: fiat justitia et pereat mundus, [Let justice be done though the world perish] so my motto is: vigeat veritas et pereat mundus, [Let truth prosper though the world perish] Every profession ought to have an analogous device"- Schopenhauer



"And at noon there will fall a hush upon the harbor
And they'll ask: Who's to die?
And then you'll hear me order firmly: All!
when the heads fall I'll cry: Hoppla!

And the ship with eight sails
And with fifty cannons
Will sail off with me"- Lotte Lenya

Quotes 7/28- Bram Stoker, Charlie Feathers

"I want to cut off her head and take out her heart"- Bram Stoker





"Well, the sun is gone down
And you're uptown
And you're just out runnin' around
I can't hardly stand it
You're troublin' me
I can't hardly stand
It just can't be
Well, you don't know, a-babe I love you so
You got me all tore up, all tore up"- Charlie Feathers

Quotes 7/27- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Bob Dylan

"And let us sup with summer; ere the gleam
Of Autumn set the year's pent sorrow free,
And the woods wail like echoes from the sea"- Dante Gabriel Rossetti



"So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late"- Bob Dylan

7/26- Orson Welles, Neil Young

"You understand what I mean by 'they'. You know who they are. They are not essentially Republicans, but they have seized the Republican party as a vehicle for their ambitions. They are the partisans of privelege- the champions of monopoly- the opponents of liberty, the adversaries of the small buisness man, amd the small farmer. They have been here a long time. They used to run the Earth and run the world of men, but now- just now- they're losing out. They are making one of their last stands in this election. Must I name them? You know who they are. They have a long, long, weary, bloody history"- Orson Welles



"Weve been through some things together
With trunks of memories still to come
We found things to do in stormy weather
Long may you run"- Neil Young

Quotes 7/25- Thoreau, Sam Cooke

"Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East — to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them — who were above such trifling...

'What!' exclaim a million Irishmen starting up from all the shanties in the land, 'is not this railroad which we have built a good thing?' Yes, I answer, comparatively good, that is, you might have done worse; but I wish, as you are brothers of mine, that you could have spent your time better than digging in this dirt.”- Thoreau




"All day long they work so hard
Till the sun is goin' down
Working on the highways and byways
And wearing, wearing a frown
You hear them moanin' their lives away"- Sam Cooke

Quotes 7/24- Mallarme, Peggy Lee

"The flesh is sad- and I've read every book"- Mallarme





"Is that all there is?"-Peggy Lee

Quotes 7/23- Emily Dickinson, Warren Zevon

"Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell"- Emily Dickinson



"If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for a while"- Warren Zevon

Quotes 7/22- Walter Pater, Bob Dylan

"Natural laws we shall never modify, embarrass us as they may; but there is still something in the nobler or less noble attitude with which we watch their fatal combinations"- Walter Pater



"Life is sad, life is a bust. All you can do is do what you must. You do what you must do, and you do it well. I do it for you, honey baby, can't you tell?"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 7/21- Christina Rossetti, Bob Dylan

"Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim;
Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dream"- Christina Rossetti



"Though nothing looks familiar to me
I know I've stayed here before
Once a thousand nights ago
With the girl from the red river shore"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 7/20- Euripides, Elvis

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far"-Euripides





"When you left you know you told me
That some day you'd be returnin'
In a fancy car, all the town to see, oh yeah
Well now everyone is watching you
You finally had your dream, yeah
And you're ridin' in a long black limousine"- Elvis Presley

Quotes 7/19- Kings 18:41, Emmylou Harris

"He said to his servant, 'go up now, look toward the sea'. He went up and looked, and said, 'There is nothing'"- Kings 18:41



"Well you really got me this time
And the hardest part is knowing I'll survive.
I have come to listen for the sound
Of the trucks as they move down
Out on ninety five
And pretend that it's the ocean
coming down to wash me clean, to wash me clean
Baby do you know what I mean"- Emmylou Harris

Quotes 7/18- Thoreau, John Lennon

"Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all"- Thoreau



"Life is very short and there's no time"- John Lennon

Quotes 7/17- Browning, Tom Petty

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"- Browning





"Oh and if perhaps I lose you in the smoke down the road, I want you to know you were the one"- Tom Petty

Quotes 7/16- Shakespeare, Bob Dylan

"If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'd have thee beaten for being old before thy time"- Shakespeare



"'We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow"- Bob Dylan

Quotes 7/15- Tolstoy, Van Morrison and Pink Floyd

"He could not renounce his actions, extolled by half the world, and therefore he had to renounce truth and goodness and everything human"- Tolstoy




"There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ships smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I cant hear what youre sayin.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now"- Van Morrison and Pink Floyd

Quotes 7/14- James Joyce, The Beatles

"...yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."- James Joyce



"Na na na, na-na na na..."- The Beatles

Quotes 7/13- Anne Frank, U2

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands"- Anne Frank



"Walk on, Walk on
Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind

All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
Leave behind it behind
Leave it behind you've got to leave it behind

All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme

Leave it behind, you've got to leave it behind "- U2

Quotes 7/12- Lew Wallace, Billy Joe Shaver

"A precious specimen nick named 'The Kid', whom the Sheriff is holding here in the plaza, as it is called, is an object of tender regard. I heard singing and music the other night; going to the door, I found the minstrels of the village actually serenading the fellow in his prison"- New Mexico Territory Governor Lew Wallace on Billy the Kid in 1879




"Dance on the mountain,shout in the canyons
Swarm in a loose heard like a wild buffalo
Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us shit that we already know"- Billy Joe Shaver

Quotes 7/11, Basil King, Bruce Springsteen

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid"- Basil King




"This is a town full of losers and I'm pulling out of here to win"- Bruce Springsteen

Quotes 7/10- Samuel Johnson, Richard Tauber

"You can never be wise unless you love reading"- Samuel Johnson



"Drink to me only with thine eyes"- Richard Tauber

Quotes 7/9- Yeats, The Everly Brothers

"Enough to know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love bewildered them till they died?"- Yeats




"Only trouble is, gee whiz, I'm dreaming my life away"- Everly Brothers

Quotes 7/8- John Ford, Waylon Jennings

"I envy not the mightiest man alive,
But hold myself, in being king of thee,
More great than were I king of all the world.
But I shall lose you, sweetheart"- John Ford




"Never stop believing in your smile
Even though you didn't stay it was all worth while
You were the best thing in my life that I recall
You and me we had it all"- Waylon Jennings

Quotes 7/7- Tolstoy, Jerry Lee Lewis

"It's all nonsense! One can kill, and steal, and still be happy..."- Tolstoy



"Well the way is dark
The night is long
I don't care if I ever get home
I'm waiting
At the end of the road

Well the stars may not shine
Neither the moon
What the heck we don't want no blues
I'm waiting
At the end of the road "- Jerry Lee Lewis

Quotes 7/6, Kierkegaard, Otis Redding

"The cunning of one who is dead consists in this, that one does not get him away from where one left him"- Kierkegaard





"Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes"- Otis Redding

Quotes 7/5, Goethe, The Beatles

"As everything in the world amounts after all to nothing to speak of, a person who drudges for the sake of others, for money or honours or whatnot, without following his own ambition, his own need, is always a fool"- Goethe




"Life is very short and there's no time"- John Lennon

Quotes 7/4, Lincoln, Conway Twitty

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature"- Abe Lincoln



"Hello darlin' nice to see ya
it's been a long time
you're just as lovely as you used to be
how's your new love are you happy
hope you're doin' fine
just to know it means so much to me"- Conway Twitty

Quotes 7/3- Hemingway, Paul Simon

"The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other"- Hemingway





"Kathy I'm lost I said. Though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and aching and I don't know why"- Paul Simon

Quotes 7/2, Kierkegaard, George Harrison

"My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love"- Kierkegaard





"Without your love I'd be nowhere at all
Id be lost, if not for you"- George Harrison