September 25
2003
- As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- selected by Nanobug
2004
- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ Blaise Pascal
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Between grief and nothing I will take grief. ~ William Faulkner (born 25 September 1897)
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- No battle is ever won... 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. ~ William Faulkner
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. ~ Christopher Reeve (born 25 September 1952)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2008
- The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~ William Faulkner (date of birth)
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. ~ William Faulkner
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. ~ William Faulkner- 3 Kalki 21:16, 24 September 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:23, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:26, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience. ~ Mark Rothko
- 2 Zarbon 04:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:20, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
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Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one. ~ Michael Madsen
- 2 Zarbon 04:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:20, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
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The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. ~ Glenn Gould
- 2 Zarbon 04:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 21:00, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
2 Kalki 23:20, 24 September 2008 (UTC)with a lean toward 4, but would extend this to:
- I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
- 2 InvisibleSun 23:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
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The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile. ~ Glenn Gould
- 3 Kalki 21:00, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it. ~ Glenn Gould
- 3 Kalki 21:00, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race. ~ William Faulkner
- 3 Kalki 21:00, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
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When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them. ~ Christopher Reeve
- 3 Kalki 21:00, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
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What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have — and you don’t have to be a "Superman" to do it. ~ Christopher Reeve
- 3 Kalki 21:00, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
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