Showing posts with label John Cage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Cage. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Quotaria

"A morning-glory at my window satisfies
me more than the metaphysics of books."
- Walt Whitman

"Sooner or later, those who win
are those who think they can."
- Paul Tournier


"Nature is a good name for an
effect whose cause is God."
- William Cowper

"Peace and justice are two
sides of the same coin."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower


"The first question I ask myself when something
doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think
it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover
that there is no reason."
- John Cage

"The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became
obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines."
- Henry J. Tillman

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Quotes

I am looking for a lot of men who
have an infinite capacity to not
know what can't be done.
- Henry Ford

"Tact is the knack of making a
point without making an enemy."
- Isaac Newton

Education...has produced a vast
population able to read but unable
to distinguish what is worth reading.
- GM Trevelyan

Education's purpose is to replace
an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes

Everyone is a genius at least once a
year. The real geniuses simply have
their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I can't understand why people are frightened
of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage