"This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies." (Tina Turner)

“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.” (Edward Coke)

Sometimes it’s nice to come say hello to your old subculture.

You can't spell "sanity" without "insanity."

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.” (Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast)

Philophile, n. Lover of ‘philes.’

“Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant garde that the ‘ins’ and the ‘outs’ change places with the speed of mach 3.” (Igor Stravinsky)

Only in Ohio do you get four seasons in one day.

"Zeus, who guided men to think,
who has laid it down that wisdom
comes alone through suffering.
Still there drips in sleep against the heart
grief of memory; against
our pleasure we are temperate
From the gods who sit in grandeur
grace comes somehow violent."

(Aeschylus, Agamemnon)

After Chairman Mao’s 1950s character writing reforms for Chinese characters in the People’s Republic of China, there was a 12.5% reduction in stroke count for the 2000 most popular characters.

"Only when one knows where one is to rest can one have a fixed purpose. Only with a fixed purpose can one achieve calmness of mind. Only with calmness of mind can one attain serene repose. Only in serene repose can one carry on careful deliberation. Only through careful deliberation can one have achievement. Things have their roots and branches; affairs have their beginning and end. They that know what comes first and what comes last come themselves near the Way." (The Great Learning, authorship unknown but often attributed to Zengzi, a disciple of Confucius; perhaps as early as 200 BCE)

“Net—the biggest word in the language of business.” (Herbert Casson)

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, and a hundred in dress.” (Joyce Carey)

“All music is folk music; I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.” (Louis Armstrong)

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always becomes ugly with time.” (Jean Cocteau)

"When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am the Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. When they are again become sober they have drawn from the sea all that they brought with them, all that they can bring with them to dry land. I have not a single friend, I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to other artists; I associate with Him without fear; I have always recognized and understood Him and have no fear for my music—it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must be freed by it from all the miseries which the others drag about with themselves." (Ludwig van Beethoven)

“Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.” (Eric Bently)

“The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” (Aristotle Onassis)

"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage." (Indiana Jones)

Mark Zuckerberg kills goats with laser guns.