Inspirational Sketchbook Quotes & Sayings

What we are saying is that on top of the warming trend there is a long-periodic oscillation that will probably lead to a lower temperature increase than we would expect from the current trend during the next years. — Mojib Latif

Trying to motivate yourself with fear is like screaming
at a child, "Do something, dammit!" You'll either
freeze up or act in counterproducti ve ways. Fear
widens the knowing-doing gap. Don't use it. — Martha Beck

I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it ... I'd walk around. I was all alone. — Joel Sternfeld

We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation. — Hanan Ashrawi

As the explanation wound on, Eck began to get a whiff of the unmistakable scent of bullshit. — Mark Zwonitzer

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it. — Elizabeth Taylor

It said a lot of things [...] because I was very upset about how Americans couldn't imagine what it was like to be something else, to be something else and proud of it. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again! — Diane Ackerman

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels. — Paul Auster

When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries. — Matt Groening

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats? — Christopher Fry

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten. — Isaac Asimov

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. — David Byrne

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. — David Hume