JOHNNY CASH
"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on
between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm,
and in that chasm is no place for any man."
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes,
but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy,
or any of your time, or any of your space."
"Always put yourself at the service of the song. Hits may come
and go but a great song can last a long, long time. Never quit
listening to new music - or old music, for that matter.
Never, ever dismiss a segment of the music-loving audience
because you don't like its tastes. Mean what you say, but don't
let the truth get in the way of a good story. Love really
is a burning thing. Don't worry about your technical limitations.
You don't have to be the best, but whatever you play, play it
like your life depends on it."
"I believe what I say, but that don't make me right."
BOB MARLEY
"In ev'rytin' you goin' do there is a wrong way and a
right way, and if you listen good you will know the right
way because there is a voice inside talkin' to
ev'ryone, seen? Seen!"
"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that,
but when me know facts me can say facts.
My music will go on forever."
"If you get down and quarrel everyday, you're saying
prayers to the devil, I say."
"When the rain fall, it don't fall on one man's house."
"The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall."
"It's no great pleasure to sing about suffering because
me no feel like people should really suffer and it is not a
great thing to sing about suffering. But you have to sing
about it cause it a go on." (February 1978)
"You find that most people, when they get money, they get
withdrawn and foolish. Money is not my richness. My richness is
to live and walk on the earth barefoot." (October 1975)
"If God had'na given me a song to sing, I wouldn't have
a song to sing. The song comes from God, all the time." (June 1976)
"Me love farming. Me wanna live 'pon a farm later. Me no really
wanna live in a flat and go to a club every night and come back,
and then do it again." (April 1977)
"Every man thinks that his burden is the heaviest. But I say -
who feels it, knows it, Lord."
"Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to
be happy, your search for happiness will never end."
"Babylon nah have no fruits."
ALBERT EINSTEIN
"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ
from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable
of forming such opinions."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones."
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
"At any rate, I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course,
powerful muscles, but no personality."
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier
to keep Holidays than Commandments."
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more
difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
"Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
MARK TWAIN
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper
you are misinformed."
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining,
but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing.
It was here first."
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference
between lightning and a lightning bug."
"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective
as a rightly timed pause."
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth
is putting on its shoes."
Mark Twain "If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." "There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry." "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Ernest Hemingway "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." John Steinbeck "Time is the only critic without ambition." "For no one else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time." Thomas Jefferson "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." - Thomas Jefferson "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." - Thomas Jefferson Bob Dylan "He not busy being born is busy dying." – Bob Dylan "When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks." – Bob Dylan "We’re all idiots, babe. It’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves." (Idiot Wind, Blood on the Tracks) – Bob Dylan Peter Tosh "To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death." "Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon?" "I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences." "Are some flowers more beautiful than others? The garden is beautiful. Do I prefer brother over brother? Comparisons are part of this political world. Where there is one, there is no conflict. Where there is two or more, there is conflict. Two is the devil. Conflict begin with the devil. We count 0 to 1, then back to 0. It is a circle." Miscellaneous "An eye for an eye only makes the world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." – Abraham Lincoln "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." – Jimi Hendrix "History is more or less bunk." – Henry Ford "Religion is all bunk." – Thomas Edison "Religion is the opium of the masses." - Karl Marx "You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people." – Will Rogers "The man who is swimming against the stream knows the power of it." – Woodrow Wilson "God give me the courage to change those things that can be changed and the serenity to accept those things which cannot be changed, and wisdom to know the difference." - Serenity Prayer "Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time." – Georgia O’Keefe "Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time." – Pablo Picasso "Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster . . . for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich W. Nietzsche "Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?" – M.C. Escher "The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs." - Ken Rockwell "Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." - Voltaire The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr "Any one man, woman or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing." – Winston Rodney a.k.a. Burning Spear "We must stop confusing religion, and spirituality. Religion is a set of rules, regulations, and rituals created by humans which were supposed to help people spiritually. Due to human imperfection religion has become corrupt, political, divisive, and a tool for power struggle. Spirituality is not theology or ideology. It is simply a way of life, pure and original as given by the Most High. Spirituality is a network linking us to the Most High, the universe, and each other." -H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I "Today, it is not one nation or one people alone who cry out for justice and peace. The entire world pursues this quest." – Haile Selassie I - July 11, 1967 "A people without knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." – Marcus Mosiah Garvey 1887 – 1940 "Everyone is the star of their own movie." - Zelda Menuskin "No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and lived to tell about it." – Sideshow Bob (The Simpsons) "First of all, quit grinning like an idiot. Indians ain't supposed to smile like that. Get stoic." –Victor to Thomas in Smoke Signals "Luminous beings are we – not this crude matter." – Yoda (Jedi Master) "It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do.’ " - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." - George S. Patton "If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes." - St. Clement of Alexandra "When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything." - Buffalo Calf Woman as told by Black Elk Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. Milton Glaser Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis