Treatzone Quote of the Month - 2008
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
—Rainer Maria Rilke
"Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes."
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
—Albert Einstein
"People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power."
—Bill Clinton
"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time
doing what they are supposed to do."
—Charles Eames
"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
—Virginia Woolf
"I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations."
—Robert Rauschenberg
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
—T.S. Eliot
"You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one."
—Dashiell Hammett
"I have never acknowledged the difference between 'serious' music and 'light' music.
There is only good music and bad music."
—Kurt Weill
"There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come--the readiness is all."
—Shakespeare (Hamlet, Act V scene 2)
"I dream'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole rest of the earth,
I dream'd that was the new city of Friends."
—Walt Whitman