17 7 / 2010
Quoth the Artist:
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life-
and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
-Georgia O’Keefe
08 7 / 2010
Quoth the Burlesque Model:
“When someone calls another person ugly, all I see is the person that’s saying it become instantly less beautiful.”
-Dita Von Teese
05 7 / 2010
Quoth the Journalist/Author:
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
28 5 / 2010
Quoth the Poet:
Go now into summer, into the backs of cars,
into the black maws of your own changing,onto the boardwalks of a thousand splinters,onto the beaches of a hundred fond memoriesin wait, where the sea in all its indefatigabilitystammers at the invitation. Go to your vacation,
to the late morning cool of your basement rooms,the honeysuckle evening of the first kiss, the firstdip and pivot, swivel and twist. Go to wherethe clipper ships sail far upriver, where the salmonswim in the clean, cool pools just to spawn.Wake to what the spider unspools into a silver
dawn dripping with light. Sleep in sleeping bags,sleep in sand, sleep at someone else’s housein a land you’ve never been, where the dreamersdream in a language you only half understand.Slip beneath the sheets, slide toward the plate,swing beneath the bandstand where the secret
things await. Be glad, or be sad if you want,but be, and be a part of all that marches pastlike a parade, and wade through it or swim in itor dive in it with your eyes open and your mindopen to wind, rain, long days of sun and longernights of city lights mixing on wet streets like paint.
-First Year Teacher to His Students; Gary Whitehead
20 5 / 2010
Quoth the Dizzy Dame:
“I’m a very lucky woman. I was courted by the youngest, handsomest, most charming, most sought-after star in show business- but I still married George because I loved him.”
-Gracie Allen
13 5 / 2010
Quoth the Poet:
“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
-Robert Frost
29 4 / 2010
Quoth the Author/Humorist:
“Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn’t live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel.
-David Sedaris; When You Are Engulfed in Flames
06 4 / 2010
Quoth the Actress:
“Everybody has a heart, except some people.”
-Bette Davis
29 3 / 2010
Quoth Kate the Great:
“It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy but, whatever it is, I’ve got it.”
-Katharine Hepburn; upon being asked what she thought ‘star quality’ was
27 3 / 2010
Quoth the Comedian:
“A man’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.”
— W.C. Fields
