Quote Collections: 10 Favorite Quotes
It Will, It Will
-Caractacus Potts
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
When they said sit down
I STOOD UP
ooh, ooh Growin' Up
-Bruce Springsteen, Growin' Up
I don't have time for things that have no soul
-Charles Bukowski
Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, TRUST THAT
-Rumi
If you want the rainbow sweetheart, you have to put up with the rain
-Dolly Parton
When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
What I wanted to say is that I’d rather have them all back here and no hits at all
-Barry Gibb reflecting on his brothers — Maurice, Robin & Andy — the era-defining BeeGees with a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with and strongly second
After tragedies, one has to invent a new world, knit or embroider it, make it up. It’s not gonna be given to you because you deserve it. It doesn’t work that way. YOU HAVE TO IMAGINE SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T EXIST AND DIG A CAVE INTO THE FUTURE AND DEMAND SPACE. It’s a territorial hope affair.
-Björk
LOVE THE DAMN QUESTIONS. Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers.
-Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet
LOVE THIS! The point being to fall in love with the game, not the points
LEARN TO SAY 'FUCK YOU' TO THE WORLD ONCE IN A WHILE. You have every right to. Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, grasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, numbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse-shitting, hair-splitting, nit-picking, piss-trickling, nose sticking, ass-gouging, eyeball-poking, finger-pointing, alleyway-sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil-eyeing, back-scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. STOP IT AND JUST DO
-Sol LeWitt's DO!, the artist's beautiful, inspiring, and brilliant letter to his dear friend, the pioneering sculptor, Eva Hesse