It will speak for us all

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.

Sugara Mitra

Hunkered down

 

I'm a silly little needy person sometimes, and I crouch in a room all alone and think of all the people that I wish were with me.

Miriam Margolyes

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

 

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

Paul Mellon

Scrumginnylicious

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. 

Phyllis Diller

 Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

 The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Frank Herbert

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Khalil Gibran

 Fifty thousand dollars worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it doesn't matter how big the kitchen is.

Tyler Florence

And your father smelt of elderberries!

Korean Spice Viburnum

The weight of it all

 We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance, and wealth with happiness.

Tom Waits

 In some Native languages the term for plants translates to 'those who take care of us'.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

After ten days

 Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Emmylou Harris

That which does not kill you

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Redd Foxx

When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.

Oprah Winfrey

 

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. 

Annie Leibovitz

 

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. 

Robin Williams

 

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. 

Orison Swett Marden

 I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.”

― Charles Bukowski, Pulp

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass. 

David Lee Roth

 

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

— Melissa Etheridge 

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.   

-Roseanne Barr

 

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Steve Jobs