May '05: A typewriter will never replace a warm body--Henry Miller June '05: you know when they stop laughing at the jokes that the relationship is doomed--Jack July '05: Why get married? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house" --Rod Stewart August '05: A kind word and a gun will get you a lot further than a kind word alone--Al Capone Sept '05: you whose mother never said no--Lebanese insult Oct '05: that which is too dumb to be spoken is sung--voltaire Dec '05: you can write a book in a month. But a decent sentence is the work of a lifetime--jack Jan '06: a woman asked me why I drink. I said: I drink for 3 reasons. When something good happens-- to celebrate. When something bad happens--to forget. And when nothing happens--to make something happen--charles bukowski . Feb '06: people seldom read a book given to them by others-- samuel johnson march '06: a womans body is the closest we will ever come to paradise-- albert camus april 06: there are two offers you should never refuse: to have sex and to appear on television--david brown, producer may 06: youre not a slob, Jack. Youre just dirty--Heidi Stromberg (friend of Jack Spiegelman) June 06: sex is over rated. Its much less important than defecation. You can live a lifetime without sex but two weeks without a bowel movement will kill you--Sir William Osler (physician) july 06: there is a fine line between genuis and insanity. I have erased this line--oscar levant aug 06: sportswriter: you made $100,000 last year--twice the salary of the president of the U.S. How do you justify this income? Babe Ruth: I had a better year. sept 06: insomnia means you arent working hard enough--ann spiegelman oct 06: I put into my paintings the colors i like. I leave it for the colors to get along with each other--picasso nov 06: how dirty the toilet depends on how bad you have to poop-- anonymous dec 06: a milestone has been reached w when 51% of the people on the obit page are younger than you--hl mencken jan 07: people are irritating. And no one is more irritating than a family member--frederica wyatt feb 07: most writers dont know how to write--harold ross( founder and editor of the new yorker march 07: 90% of human behaviour is motivated by the desire to appear on television--kenneth tynan april 07: I am going to--or I am about to--die. Either expresseion is correct-- last words of jacques poussin, 18th century french grammarrian may 07: before you can be great you have to be good--truman capote june 07: sonny liston, asked by a reporter why he chose not to participate in a freedom march down south and sonny said: because my ass aint dog proof july 07: "charm is more appreciated than wit"--em forster (a passsage to india) august 07: "I am a great writer. Where are the great readers?"--frank harris sept 07: "a woman is particular about her lovers--but she will marry anyone" --Mark Twain oct 07: "When you don’t have money the problem is food. When you have money its sex. When you have both its health. You worry about cancer or your dick falling off. If everything is jake you obsess about death. Its always something".-- JP Donleavy nov 07: "nothing good can come from losing".--don shula, football coach dec 07: "dying is easy; comedy is hard" --last words of James Quinn, actor jan 08: "the sentence is my passion"-- gertrude stein feb 08: "its a sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of God, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out"-- George Soros (super investor) march 08: "Some people have in them more jesus than hitler and some have more hitler than jesus but we all have a little of both--jack april 08: "Im a seven ulcer guy in a one ulcer job"--harry truman--as vice president may 08: "If, if, if. If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle"--Vince Takas june 08: "dont get between a Korean and an early tee time" --Jack july 08: "give me a guy with big hands, a big ass and no brain and I will make a golfer out of him." --Walter Hagen august 08: "I get tired of parents telling me how smart their kids are. Smart is a dime a dozen. What counts for me in a person is character--Dwight Eisenhower sept 08: hollywood is where all the assholes go for the finals--Ben Hecht, screenwriter oct 08: Confidence is the key for a trader. My job is simple. I wait until I see some money lying in a corner and I go over and pick it up--Jim Rogers, commodities trader nov 08: I fear curing the human being lest I lose the writer--Eric Strauss, psychiatrist, treating Graham Greene for manic-depression dec 08: So-Na, former student, asked who is her favorite actor and she says: you are teacher jan 09: there are two things in this world: bread and balls--Benito Mussilini feb 09: Its easier to be nice when you have money--Gary Cooper march 09: writing is the reader reading--turning the page. If you can do that youre a writer--Margaret Mitchell (author of Gone With the Wind) april 09: "All writing—or 90%--is about sex."--Anthony Burgess may 09: an architect is someone who goes to the bathroom to take a poop, wipes his ass and doesnt get anything on the toiletpaper--phillip johnson june 09: I dont get ulcers--i give ulcers--tommy lasorda everyone should be allowed to go crazy in their own way--russian proverb when you walk up five flights of stairs at three in the morning there is definitely a hooker involved--rodney dangerfield clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society-- mark twain michael debakeys advice to a young surgeon: rule #1: make sure you have the right patient I would rather live in collective misery in hungary than individual misery in the united states--george soros father a dictator is someone who can deport 100,000 refugees withougt blinking an eye but if his daughter develops an earache he falls apart--frederica wyatt if there is an afterlife i want to come back as a dog so my wife will love me more--oscar de la renta you dont age while eating a good meal--italian proverb history will treat me kindly--I intend to write it--winston churchill its important to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm--winston churchill being wrong is acceptable--staying wrong is unacceptable--mark minervini, investor education is overrated. who do you want behind you when the bullets are flying. Thats the question-- hans von luck, tank commander in North Africa, 1942 april '11: you only need two characters--a him and her--anton checkov may '11: youre a hard case sarge. do you ever get lonely? only around people--sean penn character in the thin red line sept '11: money makes women horny-- lloyd price august '11: we enter this world and leave it the same way--a messy way-- william carlos williams, physician and poet october '11: it doesnt take a great prosecutor to convict a guilty man. It takes a great prosecutor to convict an innocent man--overheard outside the DA's office, Los Angeles "november '11: In New York they speak of the rent, in Washington they speak of the job, and in Los Angeles its the quest for representation" --Mike Mendola, screenwriter december '11: I've had four heart by- pass surgeries. One for each food group"--rick majerus--basketball coach jan '12: history is made by bullshit artists"--Lenny Bruce, comedian, philosopher Feb '12: we are not here to be happy. we are here to reproduce-- schopenhauer ---SchopenhauerSchopenhauer March '12: James Jones, who wrote From Here to Eternity, spent many happy hours, maybe his happiest hours, inside a bar. But he had a bad heart and at some point was obliged to give up the sauce. At the end, in the hospital dying, with his wife there and she says, can I get you anything, he said: a martini. April 2012: I'm not saying he's pale and thin, but the maid at the hotel pulled back the sheets and remade the bed without realising he was still in it.--Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, discussing a scouting prospect May 2012: He couldn’t find his ass with both hands. —description of college professor, brilliant but with zero common sense, from the novel Humboldts Gift by Saul Bellow june 2012: love is the only subject-- Anatole Broyard July 2012: Umberto 1, King of Italy, to his son Victor Emmanual iii: to be king you must know three things: how to sign your name, how to read a newspaper, and how to mount a horse" Aug 2012: There is a time when panic is the appropriate response"--Eugene Kleiner, venture capitalist Sept 2012: "In business there is no such thing as a guilty conscience"--Bill Gates Oct 2012: "When you’re 16 you have to take three rights to make a left". --Mila Jovovich, actress, married at 16 for two weeks |
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girl in a chair
by picasso
by picasso
gertrude stein
painting by picasso
painting by picasso
god (aka george soros)
