January 22, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Lord Byron (1788 - 1824):

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”

and

“All men are intrinsical rascals, and I am only sorry that, not being a dog, I can’t bite them.”

and

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”

and

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”

and

“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 – 1618):

“What dependence can I have on the alleged events of ancient history, when I find such difficulty in ascertaining the truth regarding a matter that has taken place only a few minutes ago, and almost in my own presence!”

Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626):

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”

and

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

and

“Reading maketh a full man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.”

and

“Ipsa scientia potestas est.

(Knowledge itself is power.)”

August Strindberg (1849 – 1912):

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”

Robert E. Howard (1906 – 1936):

“All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—

The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.”

Jim Jarmusch (1953 - ):

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.”

Michael Hutchence (1960 – 1997):

“I told you

That we could fly

'Cause we all have wings

But some of us don't know why”