Here you'll find some of my favorites bits of English text.
“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.”
― Augustine of Hippo
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“One must learn a great number of other—and often seemingly disconnected things—before one starts with the art itself.”
― Erich Fromm
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
― Pablo Picasso
Om mani padme hum
“And the other day, this new friend of mine
Said something to me
‘Just because something starts differently
Doesn’t mean it’s worth less.’”
― Peter Bjorn and John, Objects of my affection
“All that glitters is gold
Don’t believe what you’ve been told
People lie, people love, people go
But beauty lies, in every soul.”
― Future Islands, A Dream of You and Me
“And on the last step I was dizzy Because there were stairs in all directions But I found another door And through the door there was the attic Without old clothes Without a ceiling Everything had opened wide Into the jaws of something bigger And suddenly I saw that I was Upstairs and outside and freezing on the roof Finally it had found me The answer, the feeling, and the truth
That I’m small.”
― The Antlers, Stairs to the Attic
“I have read the right books to interpret your looks you were knocking me down with the palm of your eye.”
― Joanna Newsom, Peach Plum Pear
“Hoarders can get piles of money, That is true, hackers, that is true. But they cannot help their neighbors; That’s not good, hackers, that’s not good.”
― Richard Stallman, The Free Software Song
“Most of what we write on paper is junk brought there arbitrarily because we don’t know how to say it well.”
― Mikhail Gromov, Science Lives Interview 2017
“When you wake up and you really are enjoying discipline, do something that takes that. And, when you wake up in the morning and you just want to run around in the snow and write songs, do that too.”
― Björk
“We all walk our own path, but beautiful people merge.”
― Allen Love