"Standing on the world’s summit we launch once again our insolent challenge to the stars!"
The Futurist Manifesto, F.T. Maniretti
"Museums, cemeteries! Truly identical in their sinister juxtaposition of bodies that do not know each other. Public dormitories where you sleep side by side for ever with beings you hate or do not know. Reciprocal ferocity of the painters and sculptors who murder each other in the same museum with blows of line and color. To make a visit once a year, as one goes to see the graves of our dead once a year, that we could allow! We can even imagine placing flowers once a year at the feet of the Gioconda! But to take our sadness, our fragile courage and our anxiety to the museum every day, that we cannot admit! Do you want to poison yourselves? Do you want to rot?"
The Futurist Manifesto, F.T. Marinetti
"That was the simplest expression of it. He would like to spend a long, long time with her. He did not believe there was ever going to be any such thing as a long time any more but if there ever was such a thing he would like to spend it with her."
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
"I write until my hands look like a bouquet of roses."
Watsky
"The tree trunk never varies; the foliage is a matter of caprice."
Victor Hugo
"The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere."
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
"There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought."
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone."
Zora Neale Hurston
"How come no one told me all throughout history the loneliest people are the ones who always spoke the truth. The ones who made a difference, but withstanding indifference."
Kings of Convenience
"It is in response to suffering that many—and perhaps all men—individually, and in their groups, define themselves, take on character, and develop the ethos."
H. Richard Niebuhr
"Madness is actually a sane reaction to an insane world."
Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie
"Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?"
George Orwell, 1984
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first."
Werner Heisenberg, on his deathbed in 1976
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
Albert Einstein (via sciencesoup)
