Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Isadora Duncan

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

Esther Williams

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

John W. Gardner

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Plato

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

E. M. Forster

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

Evan Bayh

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music's got these bars and measures you know.

Sun Ra

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

Susan Sontag

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

Thomas Aquinas

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Shelby Foote

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Source Unknown

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dean Kamen