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Quote o’ the Month – May….2015

“The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.”
~ David Cronenberg; canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor.

Quote o’ the Month – April….2015

“Poets are like proverbs, you can always find one to contradict another.”
~ Jules Verne; french novelist, poet and playwright.

Quote o’ the Month – March….2015

“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off.”
~ Luis Bunuel; spanish-mexican filmmaker, artist and iconoclastic revolutionary of Surrealism.

Quote o’ the Month – February….2015

“The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.”
~ Mary Wollstonecraft; british author, philosopher and women’s rights advocate.

Quote o’ the Month – January….2015

“Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.”
~ Lillian Hellman; american dramatist and screenwriter.

Quote o’ the Month – December….2014

“All relationships change the brain – but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.”

~ Diane Ackerman; american author, poet and naturalist.

Quote o’ the Month – November….2014

“The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.”

~ Hannah Arendt; german-american political theorist and philosopher.

Quote o’ the Month – October….2014

“Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.”

~ Susan Sontag; american author, filmmaker, teacher and activist.

Quote o’ the Month – September….2014

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.”

~ Margaret Mead; american cultural anthropologist, author and speaker.

Quote o’ the Month – August….2014

“Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.”

~ Martha C. Nussbaum; american philosopher and professor of law and ethics.