Against
the wind. (Bob Seger)
Go straight ahead
Means
nothing to the blind.
All's
straight ahead
That
does not lie behind.
(Virginia
Hamilton Adair)
If you can’t do something differently, don’t do it.
(David Bar-Illian)
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce,
convince. (Lucian Freud)
I wear black because I like it. It's my symbol of
rebellion--against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of
God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas. (Johnny Cash)
It’s better to wear
out than to rust out.
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I
wake up every morning and look for something creative to do with my life.
(Miles Davis)
If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about
change. (Miles Davis)
That was my gift--having the ability to put certain guys
together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go, letting them
play what they knew and above it. (Miles Davis)
How come when I need a pair of hands in the factory, I always
get a human being as well? (Henry Ford)
Good, better, best, never let it rest until your good is
better, and your better, best.
Do it the hard way and it’s easy sailing
Do it
the hard way and it’s hard to lose
Only
the soft way has a chance of losing
You
have to choose. (Rogers & Hammerstein)
Mend the break, kill the snake, and conquer everything you
undertake.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other
plans. (John Lennon)
I'm not going to get
out of this world alive. (Hank Williams)
I won't be wronged, I
won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand upon. I don't do these things to
other people, and I require the same from them.
(John Wayne in The Shootist)
Companies with too many "me too" products call me
for a seminar on innovativeness. The moment I walk into the meeting room, I
discover why they're in a rut: 150 people sit there, 147 of whom are white,
male, and around 48 years old, and 144 are wearing lime-colored polyester golf trousers.
(Tom Peters)
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on
this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. (Abraham Lincoln)
So send I you to labor unrewarded, to serve unpaid, unloved,
unknown
To
bear rebuke, to suffer scorn and scoffing, so I send you to toil for me alone.
So
send I you to bind the bruised and broken, over wandering souls to work, to
weep, to wake
To
bear the burdens of a world aweary, so send I you to suffer for my sake.
So
send I you to leave your life's ambition, to self will resign
So I
send you to lose your life in Mine.
So
send I you to hearts made hard by hatred, to eyes made blind because they will
not see.
So
send I you to taste of
When
asked if there was any cure for his final illness, Cash replied, “no, I don’t
think so. But that’s alright. There’s no cure for life either.”
Imagine there's no
countries
Nothing
to kill or die for
Imagine
all the people
Living
for the day
Imagine
all the people
Living
life in peace
Imagine no
possessions,
No
need for greed or hunger
Imagine all the
people
Sharing all the world
A brotherhood of man
(John Lennon)
We are the invisible ones, the People of the Sky, the people
of dreams whose voices cannot be bound by pain. We are the people of prayers, who stand
small before the Creator, who entreat him, so that the strand of time that
holds us to eternity might not be cut and our words slip into silence.
(DebraCalling/Thunder)
Leadership is getting
outside your comfort zone. (Charles Olsen)
Some Other Stuff (title of jazz album by Gracun Moncur III)\
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be
violent and original in your work. (Gustave Flaubert)
Born to be alive.
Just a still town
girl on a Saturday night, lookin' for the fight of her life
In the real-time world no one sees her at all, they all say she's crazy
Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart, changing woman into life
She has danced into the danger zone, when a dancer becomes a dance
It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire
On a wire between will and what will be
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
On the ice-build iron sanity is a place most never see
It's a hard warm place of mystery, touch it, but can't hold it
You work all your life for that moment in time, it could come or pass you by
It's a push of the world, but there's always a chance
If the hunger stays the night
There's a cold connective heat, struggling, stretching for defeat
Never stopping with her head against the wind
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
She's a maniac, maniac, I sure know
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
(Michael Sembelo)
Ty Cobb would have
climbed a mountain to punch an echo.
I was
about as relaxed as a bug in a roach motel. (Johnny Cash)
He
altered the band, but the band didn’t alter him.
(Whitney
Balliett on jazz saxophonist Lester Young)
"It won't be the
same without you around here." "It's always the same around
here."
(Frank Sinatra upon
his retirement from the bureaucratic NYPD in the movie, The First Deadly Sin)
You don’t know me but you don’t like me.
You
say you care less how I feel.
But
how many of you that sit there and judge me
Have
ever walked the streets of
Women have to accomplish twice as much as men in order to get
half the credit, but fortunately it’s easy for women to do.
I don’t seek, I just find. (Picasso)
He's a real nowhere man
Sitting
in his nowhere land
Making
all his nowhere plans
For
nobody
Doesn't
have a point of view
Knows
not where he's going to
Isn't
he a bit like you and me?
(Lennon
& McCartney)
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must
do is the same as what they most want to do. (W.H. Auden)
Shane: A gun is a
tool, no better or no worse than any other tool.
A gun
is as good or bad as the man using it. Remember that.
**********
Shane:
So, you're Jack Wilson.
Jack
Wilson: What's that mean to you, Shane?
Shane:
I've heard about you.
Shane:
I've heard that you're a low-down Yankee lier.
**********
Little
Joe: Was that him, Shane? Was that
Shane:
That was Wilson, all right, and he was fast, fast on the draw.
**********
Little
Joe: Shane, come back, come back, Shane! I don't want you to leave! Shane!
(From
the movie, Shane, starring Alan Ladd)
The Man in Black
You wonder why I always dress in black
Why you never see bright colors on my black and
Why my appearance seem to have a somber tone
Well, there's a reason for the things I have on
I wear the black for
the poor and beaten down
living in the hopeless hungry side of town
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime
but is there because he is a victim of the times
I wear the black for
those who have never read
or listened to the words Jesus said
about the road to happiness and love and charity
Why, you'd think he's talking straight to you and me
Well we're mighty
fine I do suppose
in our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes
But just so we're reminded of those left back,
up front there ought to be a man in black
I wear it for the
sick, lonely and old
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold
I wear the black in mourning for the lives that could have been
Each week we lose a hundred fine men
And I wear it for the
hundreds who have died
Believing that the Lord was on their side
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died
Believing that we were all on their side
Well there's things
that will never be right I know
And things need changing every where you go
But 'till we start to make a move to make a few things right
You'll never see me wear a suit of white
I've love to wear a
rainbow every day
And tell the world everything is okay
But I'll try to carry a little darkness on my back
But 'till things are bright
I'm the man in black
(Johnny Cash)