new

21 08 2007

‘What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.’

- Henry David Thoreau





up to

20 08 2007

‘Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.’

- Erica Jong





wanderers

19 08 2007

‘We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as our plains, as our places of safety!’

- Friedrich Nietzsche





lifts

18 08 2007

‘Talent for talent’s sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.’

- Ralph Waldo Emerson





she

17 08 2007

‘Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.’

- Victor Hugo





high

16 08 2007

‘After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.’

- Albert Einstein





got

15 08 2007

‘When you haven’t got a lot all that you got is a lot’

- Barry Adamson





discoveries

14 08 2007

‘The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.’

- Samuel Smiles





remarkable

13 08 2007

‘The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.’

- Charles R. Swindoll





yielding

12 08 2007

‘Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone / but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.’

- Bette Davis