There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.
Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.
Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness. . . Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
They shouldn't call anything a boot camp unless you're going off to war. Standup boot camp has been a fantastic thing, for the people putting it on. They keep you out in the woods and won't let you come back until you're funny. Lenny Bruce came up with his Religions Inc. bit on a day hike.