Category: Thought of the Day

After two days of driving in Los Angeles

"
The shortest distance between two points is always under construction."

—Rebecca McClanahan (via The Writer’s Alamanac)

"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”

— Martin Luther (via The Painting Activist)

“In America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it … and nobody, nobody knows what’s going to happen.”

—Jack Kerouac (via The Writer’s Almanac)

“Let’s make the world we imagined by acting it out now.”

—Peter Coyote (via Summer of Love: The American Experience)

“Time has the effect of seeming to quiet the work of art, domesticating it and making it into a classic, which is often another way of saying that it is an object of merely habitual regard.”

—Lionel Trilling

“There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.” –Isaak Babel (via The Writer’s Almanac)

“Show me who your friends are and I’ll show you who you are.”

I don’t know who said this originally but my friend Allie said it to me last night. My own version is

“You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep”

“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s “Theory of Relativity” to serve. You don’t have to know the Second Theory of Thermal Dynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love, and you can be that servant.”

– Martin Luther King Jr (via The Painting Activist)

Happy Independence Day everyone!

“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet”

—William Gibson (via Medialoper)

“Rock n Roll is filled with Peter Pans. Someone had to be Captain Hook.” —Alice Cooper (in an interview on Fresh Air)