"We see not with but through the eye" William Blake

"Yesterday a drop of semen... tomorrow a handful of ashes." Marcus Aurelius

"Humour is the shortest distant between two people" Victor Borge

"How we spend our days of course is how we spend our lives" Annie Dillard

"If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are at the highest point" Antonio Porchia

"Ideas are not responsible for the people who believe in them" unknown "Between the idea and the reality, between the notion and the act falls the shadow" TS Elliot

"Culture is activity of thought and receptiveness to beauty and human feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth" Alfred North Whitehead

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" TS Elliot

"A November stillness was settling like a deadly oxymoron on the April landscape" Donna Tartt

"The will to win means nothing if you haven't the will to prepare." Juma Ikangaa, 1989 NYC Marathon winner

"Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity." Michael Johnson

"She sounds the way bananas taste." Truman Capote

"Our heads are round to enable our thoughts to change direction." Francis Picabia

"Red cars travel together" could have been champions "Ruins are the most persistent form of architecture." Joseph Brodsky

"You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration." James Allen

"We look at the present through a rear-view mirror" Marshall McLuhan

"Just because you're on their side doesn't mean they're on your side." Teresa Nielsen Hayden

"See everything, overlook a great deal, improve a little." John xxiii

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." Charles Kingsley

"For a westerner to trash western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, besides Jupiter is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages untill you're trying to breathe liquid methane." Neal Stephenson

"I'm a fuzzy-headed, warm-hearted liberal and I think fuzzy-headed , warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending- if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism." Charles Stross

"Listen,women lying around in ponds handing out swords is no basis for a form of government. Supreme executive power must come from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.." Monty Python: Holy Grail

"Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion." Alice Cooper

"I don't deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet" G.K.Chesterton.

"You use a glass mirror to look at your face: you use works of art to look at your soul." George Bernard Shaw

"What art offers is space - a cetain breathing room for the soul." John Updike

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." Rene Magritte

"In art as in love, instinct is enough." Anatole France

Borrowed from PhilBaker's blog - http://www.philbaker.net/

Thanks Phil