Quote o’ the month; March…2007
“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
~Charles Baudelaire; french poet, critic and translator.
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Quote o’ the month; February…2007
“I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.”
~Jhonen Vasquez; american cartoonist, writer and producer.
Quote o’ the month; January…2007
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.”
~Roald Dahl; british author.
Quote o’ the Month; December…2006
“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
~Kurt Cobain; american singer-songwriter and musician.
Quote o’ the Month; November…2006
“Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.”
~David Ogilvy; british advertising tycoon aka “the Father of Advertising” circa 1962.
Quote o’ the Month; October…2006
“Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.”
~Leonard Cohen; canadian singer-songwriter, poet and author.
Quote o’ the Month; September…2006
“Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.”
~Bernard DeVoto; american historian, author and teacher.
Quote o’ the Month; August….2006
“Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.”
~ Charles Bukowski; american writer and philosopher.
Quote o’ the Month; July…2006
“Yes, I’m afraid you’re right. Trial and error isn’t a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.”
~Daniel Quinn; american philosopher and author.
Quote o’ the Month; June…2006
“Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche; german author and philosopher.