Kurt Vonnegut // "I love you sons of bitches... You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that’ll last for billions of years. You’re the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell."
Rei Kawakubo // "Whatever you think I am, that's what I'm not."
Salvador Dali // "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams."
Jeff Buckley // "I have no advice for anybody...except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful...even places you hate."
Cher // "Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great."
Steve Jobs // "I think most people that are able to make a sustained contribution over time, rather than just a peak, are very internally driven. You have to be. Because in the ebb and tide of people's opinions and of fads, there are going to be times when you are criticized, and criticism is very difficult. And so when you're criticized, you learn to pull back a little and listen to your own drummer. And to some extent that isolates you from the praise, if you eventually get it too. The praise becomes a little less important to you and the criticism becomes a little less important to you...and you become more internally driven."
Jimi Hendrix // "I don't like compliments...they distract me."
Marilyn Monroe // “We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.”
George Orwell // "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
Chris Hadfield // "I would love the opportunity to take everybody on 100 orbits of the world with me. To sit by the window of the Space Station...and just take the time to watch the world. It is immensely, startlingly beautiful. Each time you come around the world, the world has changed – the weather patterns have changed, the seasons have changed...and you develop an increasing understanding and awareness of the world, like watching something grow and flower. And, inevitably, somewhere along the way you start to lose your sense...of 'us' and 'them.' You lose that sense that the little square that you walk around in is the only one that matters. The more people who could see the immensity of it, the beauty of it, the patience of it, the age of it, the toughness of the world and the precious unique beauty of it...the better we would all be."
Pina Bausch // "Your fragility is also your strength."
Jorge Luis Borges // "Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous...is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination."
