Maybe an unexamined life is not worth living. But a man's examined life can make him wish he was dead.
Saul Bellow, Ravelstein

Everything is connected in the end.
Don DeLillo, Underworld

In a few hundred years, living will be completely useless, everything will have been made the same.
Paul Cézanne, Letter to Emile Zola, 1878

Far from the market place and from fame happens all that is great: far from the market place and from fame the inventors of new values have always dwelt.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Benim sadık yarim kara topraktır.
(My true love is the black earth.)
Âşık Veysel

[An] inseparable connection ... subsists between grass and that calm, cool, far-seeing and most perfect brain-work of which man is capable.
Daniel Lee, 1860, First UGA Professor of Ag

If only things had been different, everything would be otherwise.
Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater

To create is not to deform things nor to invent them, it is to give existing things new relationships.
Robert Bresson

Most people would rather die than think; in fact they do so. Bertrand Russell

And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone STONY.
Victor Shklovsky, Art As Technique

Got mashed potatoes/Ain’t got no T-bone.
Neil Young, Re·Ac·Tor

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here; this is the war room.
Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove

I repeat it again, cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia