"Books disturb people. They make them antisocial." -- Guy Montag
"Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one." -- Neil Gaiman
"After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather." -- John Hartford
"You need to be a true believer. Have you ever been blinded by passion? A girl or guy that made you so completely fucked up that your friends just couldn't understand? This is the way you need to feel about your cooking. Your craft should be sacred to you. Let's face it, you don't have time to go to church...so if cooking is where you find "God", that's probably not a bad thing." -- Food/Cooking Blog: Linecook415
Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked, "What we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years?" ... "No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television." -- Paul Hawken
"The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention." -- John Quincy Adams
"The more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas." -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
"You can remember anything if there's anything to eat in it." -- "Of Mice and Men" by Steinbeck
"Life is too fucking boring not to try." -- Lew Ashby
"The ability to play the banjo soon places one in a position to pick and choose among scores of social invitations.
Everywhere, the banjoist is assured of a hearty welcome." -- 1927 Gibson catalogue
"Where there's tea, there's hope." -- Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)
"...want less, and appreciate it more..." -- Pete Sutherland
"Many people have asked me over the years what kind of fiddle to buy, this is my definitive answer. Acquiring a fiddle is akin to an intimate relationship, would you invite someone you've only seen a picture of on the internet to come live with you and spend intensely close moments together putting in the sweat and time it takes to make a great relationship work? No, you need to go out and land the most lovely thing you can, driving all night if need be to find her. She will call to you, hanging from some lonely peg upon a wall, her shape alone will be the undeniable proportions of beauty. Take her down, run your fingers up and down her neck, listen to her sing. Is this the voice that could soothe a baby, cause someone to fall in love, drive a crowd into the frenzied ecstasy of dance? If so, beg, borrow or bribe to get her home, you will find her so irresistible that your every waking moment will be obsessed with getting your hands back on her. Yes, this my friends is the first step in developing the insanity that leads to truly great fiddling. She will help teach you, gently but firmly guide you from an awkward gawky lover to the heights of divine unity, where together your voice can be as one, you may in time have other lovers, but you'll never forget your first. This is the kind of fiddle you need to buy." -- Chance McCoy
"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall." -- Roald Dahl
"Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world." -- T'ien Yiheng
"We're all about rocking chairs, sipping whiskey, and listening to thunderstorms." -- Gerlach
"When there were no guests at night, sometimes the only noises you could hear were the creaking of chairs, the sipping of tea, and the almost silent sound of pages being turned." -- "The Mathematician's Shiva" by Rojstaczer
"Get me some guacamole and I'll tell you anything you want to know" -- "The Library at Mount Char" by Hawkins
"Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination" -- "A Tale for the Time Being" by Ozeki
"It is necessary to pursue other fun activities. The Art of someone who is too serious has no 'flavour'." -- Motobu Choki, paraphrased
"If we can cut off your pizza supply, we can bring you to your knees." -- "Learning to Swear in America" by Kennedy
"A king tells us a story about who we are and why we're great, and that story is enough to make us go kill people who tell a different story" [ie: Religion] -- "Record of a Spaceborn Few" by Becky Chambers
