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Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by...

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E L Doctorow: Writing is a...

E L Doctorow: Writing is a...

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Source: In Writers at Work,...

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Bernard Berenson: I am only...

Bernard Berenson: I am only...

I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.

Source: Sunset...

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Mary Quant: Fashion is not...

Mary Quant: Fashion is not...

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

Source: In The...

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Wherever we go,...

Wherever we go,...

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as the bizarre. Things astonish us,...

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The Dodo never...

The Dodo never...

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all...

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Mary Quant: Having money is...

Mary Quant: Having money is...

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Source: In...

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Louis Nizer: Some people will...

Louis Nizer: Some people will...

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Source: In Webster's...

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Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the...

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Althea Gibson: I think I've...

Althea Gibson: I think I've...

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea...

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Deborah Tannen: It's our tendency...

Deborah Tannen: It's our tendency...

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are...

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Grandma Moses: What a strange...

Grandma Moses: What a strange...

What a strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, the other forward; one is of today, the other of...

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I felt the...

I felt the...

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and...

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A J P Taylor: Psychoanalysts believe that...

A J P Taylor: Psychoanalysts believe that...

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone...

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Beatrix Potter: Thank God I...

Beatrix Potter: Thank God I...

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land...

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Certainly, travel is...

Certainly, travel is...

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of...

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G C Lichtenberg: Everyone is a...

G C Lichtenberg: Everyone is a...

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer...

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The printed page...

The printed page...

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and...

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Ogden Nash: Professional men, they...

Ogden Nash: Professional men, they...

Professional men, they have no cares;
whatever happens, they get theirs.


Source:...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Truth is no...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Truth is no...

Truth is no road to fortune.

Source: 'The Social Contract'
-- Jean Jacques...

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