Quote of the Day – May 27 2015
“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.”
Potter Stewart
Quote of the Day – May 26 2015
“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”
Warren Zevon
He was just an excitable boy ;-)
Quote of the Day – May 25 2015
“ Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people […]
Quote of the Day – May 23 2015
“Censorship is saying: ‘I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.’ But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a […]
Quote of the Day – May 22 2015
“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”
Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Quote of the Day – May 21 2015
“The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.”
Annie Leibovitz
Quote of the Day – May 20 1015
‘If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.’
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Impressed by the poetry in Jim Morrison’s lyrics, Rick Manzarek suggested to Jim Morrison they form a band.
Morrison already had chosen the name.
The Doors.
Quote of the Day – May 19 2015
“I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.”
Mary Ellen Mark
Quote of the Day – May 18 2015
When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and […]
Quote of the Day – May 17 2015
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov
It isn’t just the […]