“I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.”
Henry Miller book The Colossus of Maroussi
Source: The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) Part 2, p. 133
Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)
“I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.”
Henry Miller book The Colossus of Maroussi
Source: The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) Part 2, p. 133
“When a person is confirmed by others, there has to be some sign of recognition.”
Daniel Bell book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 2, The Disjunction of Cultural Discourse, p. 90
“I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy … I'm not. I'm boring… At least by party standards.”
Brad Pitt (1963) American actor and filmmaker
As quoted in "A Conversation Runs Through It" by Bruce Handy in Time magazine (13 October 1997) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,987166,00.html
“I am only a man: I need visible signs.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Veni Creator" (1961), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Pinsky
City Without a Name (1969)
Context: I am only a man: I need visible signs.
I tire easily, building the stairway of abstraction.
Many a time I asked, you know it well, that the statue in church
lift its hand, only once, just once, for me.
But I understand that signs must be human,
therefore call one man, anyone on earth,
not me — after all I have some decency —
and allow me, when I look at him, to marvel at you.
Conor Oberst (1980) American musician
Happy Birthday To Me (Feb 15)
Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Senator Barack Obama’s speech to supporters after the Feb. 5 2018 nominating contests, as provided by Federal News Service and released in the New York Times (5 February 2008) https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05text-obama.html <br class="br">2008
Barbara Boxer (1940) American politician
On the possibility of George W. Bush's impeachment <br class="br">CNN, July 13, 2007. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/13/sitroom.02.html
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns