Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Mason Cooley

But there is something about human beings that too often makes our love for the world look very much like hatred for it.

Marilynne Robinson

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Kahlil Gibran

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Edward Gibbon

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

Elayne Boosler

Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done.

Proverb

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.

Stafford Beer

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

H. L. Mencken

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes.

Yves SaintLaurent

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Will Cuppy