Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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



Monday, October 12, 2009

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

Thursday, October 8, 2009

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


Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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

Monday, October 5, 2009

Quotes 10/5- Lord Byron, Jay-Z

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




"My name is HOV"- Jay-Z

Sunday, October 4, 2009

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


Saturday, October 3, 2009

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


Friday, October 2, 2009

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



Thursday, October 1, 2009

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


Wednesday, September 30, 2009

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


Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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

Monday, September 28, 2009

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

Sunday, September 27, 2009

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)


Saturday, September 26, 2009

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


Thursday, September 24, 2009

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

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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

Friday, September 18, 2009

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


Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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


Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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