“Greatness is not what we achieve; it’s what we overcome.” Yehuda Berg
“Do not hurry; do not rest” Goethe
“Cheers to a new year and another chance to get it right.” Oprah Winfrey
“Christmas is not ‘clothing optional’ this year - we have a guest.” Sybil Stone in The Family Stone
“There are two kinds of people I don’t trust: people who don’t drink and people who collect stickers.” Chelsea Handler
“I will repeat the message. Will the party who addressed me at bedtime last night kindly speak up. Please tell me where you are, if you are my friend!” Wilbur from Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.” Hunter S. Thompson
“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance.” John Ruskin
Ambition: “To achieve my definition of success in my professional and personal life.” Designer Kimberly Ovitz
“To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self” Joan Didion
“You work, work, work - and then, one day, it works.” Jim Irvin, Firefly Vodka co-owner & creator
“I don’t know why they call this stuff hamburger helper. It does just fine by itself, huh? I like it better than tuna helper myself, don’t you, Clark?” Cousin Eddie in National Lampoon’s Vacation
“Paradise has become an uneasy dwelling place; the sublime sea frames our vulnerability, the precious nature of life itself.” Photographer Richard Misrach about his “On the Beach” series
“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” Julia Child
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.” Joan Didion
“I wanna rock with you (all night) Dance with you in the day (sunlight) I wanna rock with you (all night) We’re gonna rock the night away.” Rock with You by Michael Jackson
“Hollywood may magnanimously offer the writer what they vaguely call ‘a piece of the picture’ but the only words that have any meaning are: ‘No, thanks, I want the cash up front.’” The Good Life According to Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner
“In an artwork you’re always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.” Artist Damien Hirst
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.” Coco Chanel
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.” The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“Now, I owe it to myself to tell you, Mr. Griswold, that if you are thinking of taking the tribe cross country, this is your automobile. The Wagon Queen Family Truckster. You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it.” National Lampoon’s Vacation
“Seven beers followed by two scotches and a thimble of marijuana and its funny how sleep comes all on its own.” David Sedaris
“True, this. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.” Richelieu by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“And me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it’s not some place you can look for, ’cause it’s not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something…” The Beach by Alex Garland
“Definition of a great city: a place that makes virtue out of vice and knows exactly where to find fun. Welcome to Dublin, the greatest city in Europe.” Lonely Planet’s Guide to Ireland
“So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru’s roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance.” Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” Ernest Hemingway
“No battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” The Sound and the Fury
“Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity.
But silence is impossible.
Silence screams.
Silence is a message,
just as doing nothing is an act.” Leonard Peltier
“How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? ” Steve Prefontaine
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” Allen Ginsberg
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.” United States President Barack Obama
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.” Andy Warhol
“I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.” David Sedaris
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea” e.e. cummings
“When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.” Pablo Picasso
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
