“My vocation is in composition — building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.”
~ Jimmy Page, b. 9 January 1944
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Jimmy Page (b. January 9th): “My vocation is orchestrating a guitar army.”
9 JanElvis Presley (b. January 8th): “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
8 Jan
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
~ Elvis Presley, b. 8 January 1935
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David Bowie (b. January 8th): “I need to be something more than human.”
8 Jan
“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”
~ David Bowie, b. 8 January 1947
Khalil Gibran (b. January 6th): “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know…”
6 Jan
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
~ Khalil Gibran, b. 6 Jan 1883
Isaac Asimov (b. January 2nd): “Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
2 Jan
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
~ Isaac Asimov, b. 2 Jan 1920
Marianne Faithfull (b. December 29): “Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up…”
29 Dec
“Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I’ve had lots of shocks because it’s as though I don’t learn the lessons, so something new comes and hits me.”
~ Marianne Faithfull, b. 29 December 1946
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Eddie Vedder (b. December 23): “The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”
23 Dec
“The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.”
~ Eddie Vedder, b. 23 December 1964
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Ralph Fiennes (b. December 22): “As an actor, there’s a bit of you that wants to be looked at…”
22 Dec
“As an actor, there’s a bit of you that’s decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there’s a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.”
~ Ralph Fiennes, b. 22 December 1962
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Harold Pinter (b. October 10): “Language is a trampoline” & other quotes on writing
10 Dec
Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others’ works include The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Trial.
Six quotes on writing:
- Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
- One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
- I don’t give a damn what other people think. It’s entirely their own business. I’m not writing for other people.
- Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you … at any time.
- I’m not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I’m not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don’t see any placards on myself, and I don’t carry any banners.
- I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else’s life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.
Andrew Carnegie (b. November 25): “I resolved to stop accumulating…”
25 Nov
“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.”
~ Andrew Carnegie, b. 25 November 1835
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