“Good morning starshine the earth says hello….”
Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Recommended quotes page 65
Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor
-Oh, thank you!
"My Name Is" (Track 2).
1990s, The Slim Shady LP (1999)
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
“There are four basic human needs: food, sleep, sex and revenge.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Existencilism (2002)
“Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Source: Wall and Piece (2005)
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Other sources
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Context: Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) Russian composer
Diary entry for October 9, 1886, quoted in Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective (1953), p. 73.
“I am a Russian, Russian, Russian, to the marrow of my bones.”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) Russian composer
quoted in Geoffrey Hindley, The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music (1982) ISBN 0896731014
Ethan Hawke (1970) American actor and writer
The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/theater/31roundtable.html?pagewanted=all (2010-01-27) <br class="br">2010&ndash;present
“The truth doesn’t hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn’t hurt. It’s better to know the truth.”
Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter
"Inside the Actors Studio," 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBBtYcK9Jb8
Book 8, Ch. 98
variant: Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed. (Book 8, Ch. 98)
Paraphrase: "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" ”
Appears carved over entrance to Central Post Office building in New York City.
The Histories
“This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.”
Book 9, Ch. 16
Variant translations:
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
The Histories
“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”
Herodotus (-484–-425 BC) ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian
The words of Socrates, as quoted by Diogenes Laertius.
Misattributed
Herodotus (-484–-425 BC) ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian
This statement is not to be found in the works of Herodotus. It appears in the acknowledgements to Mark Twain's A Horse's Tale (1907) preceded by the words "Herodotus says", but Twain was simply summarizing what he took to be Herodotus' attitude to historiography.
Misattributed
Roger Penrose book Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
Source: Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe (2016), Ch. 3 Fantasy, p 322