Quote for Today: Shaun Tan
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake …
Quote for Today: Daphne DuMaurier
I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork …
Quote for Today: Jean Piaget
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men …
Quote for Today: Akira Kurosawa
People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially …
Quote for Today: Buckminster Fuller
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ―Buckminster Fuller Image: Obsolete © Andrew Malone …
Quote for Today: Karen Maitland
Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the …
Bruce Mozert: Pioneer of Underwater American Glamour
Most people follow prescribed paths, trusting that life will be fulfilling. Sometimes an enterprising spirit and persistence have more success. Born Robert Bruce Moser in Newark, Ohio in 1916, Bruce Mozert’s first job …
Quote for Today: S.J. Watson
We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. …
Quote for Today: George Carlin
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that …
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking …