Quote for Today: Stephen Sondheim
If I cannot fly… Let me sing. —Stephen Sondheim, “Green Finch and Linnet Bird” from Sweeney Todd Image: Bird in cage/ Fisheye © Aleera with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Douglas Coupland
People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to come in and hijack that part of your brain …
Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
All that has never yet been spoken I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. I want to free what waits within me so that what no one …
Quote for Today: Muhammad Ali
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro …
Quote for Today: Anthon St Maarten
There is no need for us all to be alike and think the same way, neither do we need a common enemy to force us to come together and reach …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybaritic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must …
Quote for Today: Jim Morrison
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. …
Quote for Today: Ocean Vuong
I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn’t trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I …
Quote for Today: Oliver Sacks
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns …
Quote for Today: Stephen King
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open …