“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”
—Henry J. Kaiser
October 2011
31 posts
“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk.”
—Charles Baudelaire
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
—Anaïs Nin
“One day you’re there and then all of a sudden there’s less of you. And you wonder where that part went, if it’s living somewhere outside of you, and you keep thinking maybe you’ll get it back. And then you realize, it’s just gone.”
—Peggy Olson (Mad Men)
“Get out of here and move forward. This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.”
—Don Draper
“If you’re trying to please everyone, then you’re not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don’t think, in the long run.”
—Viggo Mortensen
“No matter what, soldier on.”
—Town & Country Magazine (Nov 2011) on Patricia Kludge
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
—John Lennon
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
—Albert Schweitzer
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to…love what you do.”
—Steve Jobs
“I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
—Celine, Before Sunrise (film)
“I had worked for this old man and once he told me that he had spent his whole life thinking about his career and his work. And he was fifty-two and it suddenly struck him that he had never really given anything of himself. His life was for no one and nothing. He was almost crying saying that.”
—Celine, Before Sunrise (film)
“I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
—Coco Chanel
