jolie laide

National Geographic photo of Mouse Lemur by Mark Thiessen

Jolie Laide

[French: pretty ugly] not pretty in conventional terms, but nevertheless has a distinctive harmony or charm

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"Happy are the painters for they shall not be lonely."
- Winston Churchill 

success

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan

hovercraft

"We came over in different ships, but we're all in the same boat."
- Jesse Jackson

maxim

"I'd rather spend two days as a tiger than 200 years as a sheep."
- Tipu Sultan

give up

"When one is alone and unarmed, surrender may be pardoned."
- Napoleon

trying to put his troubled life back together

"I don't trust happiness. I never did; I never will."
- Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies

On the importance of making mistakes

"If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying."
- Wynton Marsalis

village

"These fighters against capitalistic society are to be met in Greenwich Village ... they are the companions of the crafstman of the chisel, the brush, and the pen."
- Hippolyte Havel, 1915

scroll

"We heard the word 'beat' spoken on street corners in the village—it meant characters of special spirituality emphasizing a new style for American culture."
- Jack Kerouac, 1957