“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”
Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian
“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”
Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian
“What an artist dies in me!”
Qualis artifex pereo.
Nero (37–68) Emperor of Ancient Rome, 5th and last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
Variant translations:
What an artisan I am in dying!
So great an artist, I die!
Like an artist, I die.
Truly... an artist is about to perish.
Quoted in ""Nero"" - Page 51 by Edward Champlin - History - 2003
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
Introduction, p. 1
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Context: Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
“I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.”
Kurt Cobain book Journals
Source: Journals (2002), p. 124
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist
Sophie Scholl (1921–1943) White Rose member
As quoted by Else Gebel, in letter to Robert Scholl (November, 1946). Original German text. http://www.mythoselser.de/texts/scholl-gebel.htm
“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
“In the face of Donald Trump, the Latin American right chose obedience over dignity.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.
“One writes from what one lives, but also from what hurts.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM
“I’m not interested in moralizing… I’m interested in creating tension in the reader.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM
“A writer has to be stubborn with the system.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM
“Literature is not meant to give answers… it is meant to unsettle, to open questions.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM
“The pleasure is not really in writing, it is in reading.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM
“With time, one learns that one’s work is never finished.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM
“God is everywhere, and you can find him everywhere.”
Genghis Khan (1162–1227) founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire
Mohammad Habib and Khaliq Ahmad Nizami (ed.), A Comprehensive History of India, New Delhi, 1970, Volume V, The Sultanat, First Reprint, 1982. Quoted from Sita Ram Goel, The Calcutta Quran Petition (1999) ISBN 9788185990583 Chapter 10.
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor
