"If all the insects were to disappear from earth, within 50 years all life would end. If all human beings disappeared from earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish."

- Jonas Salk

"All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as you grow up."
- Pablo Picasso

"The best for the most for the least. That's why we got into mass production."
- Ray Eames

Cheers

"[T]he plain fact is that" alcohol "makes other people, and indeed life itself, a good deal less boring. Kingsley grasped this essential fact very early in life, and (so to speak) never let go of the insight," - Christopher Hitchens [1949-2011]. But there are few people as boring as a drunk when you're sober.

"Good business is the best art."
- Andy Warhol

"When you have eliminated all that is impossible, whatever remains must be the truth, no matter how improbable."

- Sherlock Holmes

poetry

"The more you can boil something down, the better."
- Calvin Trillin

"If you ever want to run for the Presidency of the United States, you have to be prepared to strip naked and take a bath at high-noon in the busiest intersection of your town."
- Attributed to Fred Dutton, JFK Advisor

“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that place.”
- Steve Jobs

"For a writer the centre of the universe is where you are."
- Amos Oz 

process

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Amy Goodman paraphrasing Gandi

organic gardener

"Have nothing in it that's not beautiful or useful."
- Prince Charles

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
- Steve Jobs

mindfulness

"We basically forget 50% of what we have learned in the last 24 hours."
- Attributed to Joshua Foer

"The Blues ain't nothing but a personal catastrophe expressed lyrically."
- Cornel West  

A place to eat in Buffalo

http://www.schwabls.com/

"The Irish have a special talent for suffering ... Anybody who has been in a room full of Irish people knows that the status goes to the person who has had the worst thing happen to them most recently."
- Michael Lewis

John Adams drank a tankard of whiskey daily.

"All creative work is a war against self-conciousness; self-conciousness is the enemy of creativity."
- James L. Brooks

ancient greek

"When we are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself & study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." 
- Epictetus 

sabbatical

"Get right with yourself. That's what life's about."
- Sonny Rollins

Cleveland

Portrait of Nathaniel Olds by Jeptha Homer Wade, 1837

bad

"I don't trust anyone who hasn't been arrested once."
- John Waters

fire

Firefighters' ladder drill: http://bit.ly/n6mI8U

Four

"Out of 58 billion people who have lived on the earth, only 12 of us have walked on the moon."
- Alan Bean

Footlights Revue

"I don't know many people worth knowing who don't have a mind that sometimes leads them astray."
- Stephen Fry

wealth

In 1840 the word millionaire is invented.

radio free europe

"It's really fun to be famous, I'm sorry. And to be looked at and considered successful is great. [But] for every single person in this world who thinks I'm successful and great, there's someone else who thinks I'm a sham and just so full of myself and a walking piece of shit as an artist, and that's ok."
- Michael Stipe

the harder I work the luckier I get

Q: How do you do so many things at once and how do you cope with it?

A: I'm going to let the universe bring to me whatever. I'm going to be open to receive it. But I'm also going to be prepared to change direction. I'm not going to be all locked down and closed and trying to control every moment of the day.

Montserrat

"The perfect music is probably silence."
- Sting

What is art?

"If the artist says it's a work of art, it's a work of art."
- Marcel Duchamp

Pre-Presidency

"Little known and mostly laughed at."

Commander in Chief

"I know what it is to be unpopular, Mister Adams."
- George Washington

4

"Don't ever tell people how good you are; show them."
- Arnold Palmer's father

"a very dedicated artist"

"He works from about 9 in the morning to about 3 in the afternoon. Then he works from about seven to eleven or eleven-thirty. He does that 7 days a week."
- on Lucian Freud

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