Some of My Favourite Quotations:

"Inspiration is a guest that only calls when invited"

Facebook n. Almanack wherein People do catalogue their Achievements for publick Consumption; thus a strutting Compendium of Peacockery

The Airbrush Obergruppenführer

'I have nigh on one Hundred PROBLEMS, yet my WENCH is not one'

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”- Anais Nin

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” - Anais Nin

Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded: Buddha

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is tied to everything else in the universe."-John Muir

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. --Bo Bennett

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
― Clive James

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.-Voltaire

“Practice doesn’t make perfect — perfect practice makes perfect.”

Grown men do not need leaders.
Edward Abbey

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
Edward Abbey

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
Edward Abbey


Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey

If the end does not justify the means - what can?
Edward Abbey

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
Edward Abbey

 "don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin', senator".
"you gonna shoot them pistols or whistle dixie?"

“Great spirits have always encountered
Violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
— Albert Einstein

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -Who watches the watchmen?

"People that are racist and come off with that excuse 'oh, am not racist, some of my best friends are black' - that’s like me saying,'I am not a murderer, some of my best friends are alive'." Sean Lock

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
-- Thomas Edison


Practice Tips.
Someone once said “Practice doesn’t make perfect — perfect practice makes perfect.” Here are a few things to keep in mind. 1) Practice what you don’t know, not what you do know. 2) Set a short-term goal before each practice session so you know how your time will be used before you start. 3) Practice for at least 10 minutes every day. 4) Don’t practice the same thing, in the same order, that you did the day before.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
-- George Bernard Shaw

 Don't confuse Pyrography with pornography..Ouch!!

Sic Transit Gloria mundi- “Earthly glory is fleeting”

 Nulla Tenaci invia est via “for the tenacious, no road is impassable”

Scientia est potentia -“Knowledge is power”.

'When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him'. - Jonathan Swift

'Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride'. -Jonathan Swift...

'Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding'. - Jonathan Swift

'Books, the children of the brain'. Jonathan Swift

 "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." -- Seneca the Younger

"Superficial goals lead to superficial results." - Attila the Hun

For every polymath Leonardo, there are dozens of thuggish Caravaggios. - A.A.Gill

'Ars est celare artem'- The Art is to conceal the Art - the hard part is making it look easy

damnant quod non intelligunt: "they condemn what they do not understand." This is the lament of those who try to express their original, creative, and/or artistic impulses in a game only to have them shot down by their peers, reviewers, or the masses.

“Bin asked if Ah want tuh invest in a hedge fund buh leik tha's bonkaz. Yerz cannat make munnee oota a lerda dorty shrubs man!” Cheryl Kerl

The mind is like a parachute, it works better when it's open

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it! W.H. Murray/Goethe

“Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen.” “The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951): Tractatus-Philosophicus (1922), p. 184.

Nothing is learned until you apply it, until you can TEACH it.

It is a funny thing about life; If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. ~ William Somerset Maugham

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. W. Somerset Maugham

"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance." – Confucius

"We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are." – Calvin & Hobbes

"Science builds the aeroplane, religion flies you into buildings"...

'Monte Carlo- Alcatraz for rich people!' - Jack Nicholson

There's No “Magic Secret”

There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.

MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY

Sprezzatura-a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.”

if a man speaks in the woods, and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?

"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities." - Oscar Wilde

If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. -Chinese Proverb

Imagination is Intelligence with an erection - Victor Hugo

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now,  thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. -Robert Wilensky

"Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts." — Paul Rand

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.- Voltaire

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. - Voltaire

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.- Voltaire

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. -Voltaire

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." Voltaire

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.- Voltaire

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.- Voltaire

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.- Voltaire

"Women are like elephants. Everyone likes to look at them but no-one likes to have to keep one."- WC Fields

"You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life." - Salvador Dali

Politics is show business for ugly people.

"I like to bother people. I like to find where the line is and deliberately cross it and drag the audience with me then have them happy that I did it." - George Carlin

Buddha "A beautiful thing is never perfect." ~Proverb

"While you're working hard to be the best, the best is working twice as hard to remain the best."

"You haven’t taught until they’ve learned".- John Wooden

–Practice on the days that you eat

–If you want to get better, double your failure rate

–Do one thing every day that scares you

"Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing." — Chris Rock

"Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come"— Gilles Deleuze

"Only the idea can inject the venom."
— Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari

"Today is the first day of the rest of your existential crisis."
— John McGill

"My old chief taught me three lessons: Never believe anything you hear and only half of what you see. Never go into debt because you will never get out. And never pat yourself on the back because karma will bite you in the ass.— David Macinnis Gill (Black Hole Sun)

"Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the expense of reality itself. They talk figures and icons and signs, but fail to perceive forces and flows. They bind us to other realities, and especially the reality of power as it subjugates us. Their function is to tame, and the result is the fabrication of docile and obedient subjects"
— Gilles Deleuze (Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia)

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.” - Mark Twain

"You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity."
— Banksy (Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall)

"He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."
— St. Francis of Assisi

"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being."
— Carl Gustav Jung

When people say "Let's not play the blame game" it's usually because they're to blame.

"Beauty without intelligence is an illusion that is close to disenchantment. It is like a fairy that fascinates us, as long as we look at her through the enchanting prism of her beauty. However, it disappears as soon as the light of reason penetrates beyond the place where , the eyes can see." –
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, Concerning Women's Intelligence and Beauty, 1876

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise". - Robert Fritz

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. Albert Einstein

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business
in your heart." - Thomas J. Watson

“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.” -Thomas Otway

"Make new things familiar and familiar things new." - Samuel Johnson

"Sir, when a man is tired of pornography, he is tired of life", Dr Samuel Johnson 1777

"Age is just a number?  and jail is just a room, right."

A "sapiosexual" is someone attracted to intelligence in others.

“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” - Robert Anthony

Samuel Johnson - Mister WETHERSPOON'S Sorrowful Emporium Of Thrift-Ales For The Indigent

nipples never hurt anyone but have fed billions..unlike censors who have fed no-one

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.-Voltaire

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.-Voltaire

To hold a pen is to be at war.Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.Voltaire

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.-Voltaire

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.-Voltaire

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ~ Scott Adams

"Immature" is a word that boring people use to describe fun people Stewie Griffin

...and you think you're so clever and classless and free,but you're all fucking peasants as far as I can see. -Lennon

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.Then the pond becomes over-fished and no-one has any damn fish and then all the other fishermen gang up on the man and beat him to death...

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.-  Sir Winston Churchill

You hear that? You hear that tone you're using? That's penis repellent right there.- Peter Griffin

You got to lose to know how to win.

When people tell you you've changed, it's only because you stopped acting the way they want you to act.

"It's not about what's perfect, it's about what's right, that's the great intangible." David Lee Roth

"Talent will out, m'dears”- Freddie Mercury

Schmoozing is easy...Work is hard...

There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure.
David Brent

“They say it’s never too late to become what you might have been. But it’s never too early, either.” -Anna Quindlen

"You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years."
— Chris Rock

Great art resonates.  And that's what's wrong with entertainment today, it doesn't.Great art is all about feel. Capturing lightning in a bottle. - Bob Lefsetz

LordStewie Stewie Griffin
Not trying to be rude, but your dick gets less action then a white crayon

sticks 'n' stones may break my bones but words will  cause me psychological damage for life

Dear Mr Oliver - Being able to chop an onion up really, really fast doesn’t make you Britain’s education Tsar. Also preaching about academic excellence is a bit rich when you left school without ANY qualifications.

"Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered."
(R.W. Young, cited in Kurzweil, 1999)

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty hearts and empty minds can do that.” - Norman Vincent Peale.

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night -there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.”
-Marilyn Monroe

"You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization." ―Denis Waitley

"The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little." - Banksy

"To the man with a hammer, every problem tends to look pretty much look like a nail."

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."— John Steinbeck

"I'm big boned" .. "bones don't jiggle!" - Stewie Griffin

“You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like He rushed it.”-Bill Hicks

SIMULATE the effects of early onset dementia by looking at the 'people you may know' bit on Facebook. - Top Tips

Being relentless brings its own rewards - Gene Simmons

Freddie Mercury Trivial Pursuit story - the game had been going on for days (well, apparently it felt like it to all there!), and Freddie was always insistent that the answer given was exactly what was written on the card. Finally it was nearing the end, where you can finish the game. He threw the dice, got into the middle, and the question was.....  "Who is the lead singer for Queen?!" He screamed "Me Darlings!!!" And the other team refused to let him have it because it said "Freddie Mercury" on the card and not "ME"!!!

Happiness is not the absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them. - H. Jackson (Jack) Brown Jr.

"If you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose" - Bob Dylan

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. -Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

“Creativity is subtraction.” It’s not a poem, it’s a rallying cry. Austin Kleon


Most people who say it can't be done really just mean that they don't want to do it. ralph marston

What you have is not nearly as important as how much you're willing to make use of it. ralph marston

Doing just whatever is convenient won't accomplish very much. Doing whatever it takes is makes you impossible to stop. - Ralph Marston

Life is like a box of chocolates. It doesn't last long if you're morbidly obese.

Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence theory suggests that IQ isn't fixed; our brains are flexible and can be trained

"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort." - John Ruskin

"Why say a lot of things to a few people, when I can say nothing to everyone?" Seinfeld about 'twitter'

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home” ― Twyla Tharp

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read"-Frank Zappa

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” - Jonathan Swift

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”-Henry Ward Beecher

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything - George Bernard Shaw

"Art is the proper task of life. "
— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence” -  Friedrich Nietzsche

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication”-Friedrich Nietzsche

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” - Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
 - Calvin Coolidge

The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.-  P. J. O'Rourke

Cato tells us that Publius Scipio, who was called Africinus, used to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn’t understand the assignment.
I told them they didn’t understand life."
— John Lennon

"What surprises me most about humanity is man. He sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies never having really lived." - Dalai Lama

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn’t desire deeply isn’t hurt much by failure.-Harvey Dunn

If they don't like you - they call it arrogance, if they do they call it confidence...

"My antagonistic meanspirited attitude is reserved for fuckwits who desperately try to rationalize or otherwise defend what is an unhealthy mindset. Get some therapy." - JadeSyren

"Don't argue with idiots...
They bring you down to their level,
and beat you with experience."

"Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy" - Louis CK

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten." Hunter S. Thompson

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it." -John Lennon

“Andy Warhol was replicating images to show they were meaningless,” he says. “And now, thanks to Mr Brainwash, they’re definitely meaningless.”-Banksy

"Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamor of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand." - Aldous Huxley

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

CREATIVITY is getting started. ART is finishing things.-Pete Townshend

To become wealthy, spend less time consuming & more time creating.-Ralph Marston

Some people need to be reminded that trying to play 'hard to get' doesn't work when you're already 'hard to want.....'

Even Atheists know that god is in the details...

"The tears are now an almost continuous snotty cataract of entitlement" AA Gill on The X factor

"Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself".
- Gene Simmons

"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes." William Gibson

"Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics." ∼ Albert Einstein

"But in Britain, they have the class system. That allows you to discriminate against people the same colour as you"-Reginald D Hunter

Perhaps they wanted acceptance, unaware that the need for it is not only insatiable but causes most of the mistakes made in life.

Perhaps they wanted maturity, unaware that it's just a cage that adults make childen race towards so that they too may one day be as unhappy as them.

monetisation - bringing Joy to rock fans everywhere.

...shoot chavs in the face and process them into Soylent Green, I'm not saying we should, just that it's a possibility - The power of suggestion

“People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it`s there.” – Freddie Mercury

"This is the terrible law of the universe. This is the basic law; it is a fact… Absolute suffering leads to — is the means to — absolute beauty.”-Philip K. Dick

If life gives you lemons .. punch it in the dick until it doesn't.

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts". -Bertrand Russell (Please consider this statement before reposting shite...)

why do the upper classes, who already have all of the property, wealth and power feel the need to persecute the fox...how empty are their lives? as they ponder in their gilded cages..spoilt and undeserving, dreaming up more schemes to take and take...

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”- Albert Einstein

German words, as Mark Twain once noted, are “so long that they have a perspective.”

“An artist is not paid for his labour but for his vision.” ~ James Whistler

"Give me 10 minutes to talk away my ugly face and I'll bed the Queen of France" -Voltaire

Eventually when the Arschleckers, nepotists, backstabbers, credit takers and glory hunters weasel their way into the same organisation - who will generate the ideas? who will actually do the work? or do they cancel each other out?

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." - Muhammad Ali

"Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."

"I used to point out at art school, you can teach the craft, it's the poetry you can't teach. But now they try to teach the poetry and not the craft." David Hockney