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