Thought for the week archives

July 06 2008

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

- Robert Browning

June 29 2008

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

- Diane Ackerman

June 22 2008

Jack Handey

- To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.

June 15 2008

Margaret Bourke-White

- The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

June 08 2008

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabar

June 01 2008

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the non-musician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

- Aaron Copeland

May 25 2008

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

- Jean Cocteau

May 18 2008

Life has taught me that there are occasions when you should, and occasions that you shouldn't. Life has not yet taught me to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

- Douglas Adams, Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

May 11 2008

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

May 04 2008

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

- Georges Bracque