July 8 Birthdays

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I dont think thats only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaignsthey don't admit that.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones. Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

I remember going to Bob Prestons dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, Give me the script. Thats where youre going off the road. Thats comedy. Its never the line itself, its in the foundation.

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

Sometimes Im an ass, sometimes Im sweet as peaches.

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

But unlike the setup in most organizations, where theres an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, Im basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me.

Ive come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. Ive designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, Ive done conceptual art pictures.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

I didn't say that I didn't say it, I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear.

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.