I like the quotes, somehow many seem something my Papa could have said. He and Papa are contemporaries, but were continents apart, different culture, and yet some of them sounded as though Papa could have said that.

Lots of brilliance in this collection, in a wide range of fields. McGahern is more conventional, it seems to me. All others were leaders in their field, dedicated to upset apple-carts. Elisabeth Cady-Stanton is still vilified by many emales, all I can say: when will many of us ever learn? Thank you, Don.

Emily Carr Quotes Canadian - Artist December 13, 1871 - March 2, 1945 It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. Emily Carr Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. Emily Carr Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. Emily Carr I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder. Emily Carr I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. Emily Carr Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching. Emily Carr There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. Emily Carr You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing. Emily Carr Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. Emily Carr You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. Emily Carr The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. Emily Carr The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women. Emily Carr Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. Emily Carr Mel Torme Quotes American - Musician December 13, 1925 - June 5, 1999 Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year. Mel Torme I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. Mel Torme I want to sing for the broadest possible audience. Mel Torme As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else. Mel Torme There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past. Mel Torme It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section. Mel Torme I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. Mel Torme How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. Mel Torme But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. Mel Torme As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements. Mel Torme Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film. Mel Torme So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer. Mel Torme See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys. Mel Torme Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two. Mel Torme My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer. Mel Torme I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old. Mel Torme I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America. Mel Torme I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage. Mel Torme Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it. Mel Torme Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money. Mel Torme Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio. Mel Torme As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer. Mel Torme Dick Van Dyke Quotes American - Actor Born: December 13, 1925 Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things. Dick Van Dyke When you're a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don't have a thought in your mind. It's purely meditation, and we lose that. Dick Van Dyke Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them. Dick Van Dyke There are no sure answers, only better questions. Dick Van Dyke 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' was a movie that I repeatedly turned down. The movie's producer, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, known for his tight-fisted control of the James Bond movie franchise, desperately wanted to re-team Julie Andrews and me after the success we'd enjoyed with 'Mary Poppins.' Dick Van Dyke Don't worry so much. Most of the things you worry about never end up happening. Dick Van Dyke For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me. Dick Van Dyke Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.' Dick Van Dyke In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living. Dick Van Dyke But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore. Dick Van Dyke I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.' Dick Van Dyke 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life. Dick Van Dyke I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind. Dick Van Dyke I never wanted to be an actor, and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man, and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do. Dick Van Dyke I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything. Dick Van Dyke I was the class clown, you know, that kind of thing, and I gathered around me a group of guys who also were silly. I was in all the plays and everything. But I don't know, at that time show businesses looked like the moon, you know, it was so far away. I wanted to be a radio announcer. Dick Van Dyke The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world. Dick Van Dyke I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years. Dick Van Dyke Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation. Dick Van Dyke I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don't know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing. Dick Van Dyke I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man. Dick Van Dyke My life has been a magnificent indulgence. Dick Van Dyke I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner. Dick Van Dyke The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer. Dick Van Dyke The secret to keeping moving is keeping moving. Dick Van Dyke In Bernie Sanders, I see a man saying that the emperor has no clothes while everyone around him insists they see clothes. Whether or not he makes it to the White House, I hope and pray that everyone hears the alarm he is sounding now; it may be the last voice we ever hear. Dick Van Dyke I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun. Dick Van Dyke Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, with the worst Cockney accent ever done. No. 1 was Sean Connery, because he uses his Scottish brogue no matter what he's playing. Dick Van Dyke Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism. Dick Van Dyke I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see. Dick Van Dyke I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.' Dick Van Dyke 'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life. Dick Van Dyke I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage. Dick Van Dyke I pay attention to the news. I take the 'New York Times.' I do the Saturday crossword. Dick Van Dyke As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility. Dick Van Dyke As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework. Dick Van Dyke Divorce is something that I never dreamed would happen to me. But it did. Dick Van Dyke My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it. Dick Van Dyke

Maxwell Anderson Quotes American - Playwright December 15, 1888 - February 28, 1959 The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. Maxwell Anderson If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. Maxwell Anderson This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it. Maxwell Anderson There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. Maxwell Anderson He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. Maxwell Anderson J. Paul Getty Quotes American - Businessman December 15, 1892 - June 6, 1976 Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J. Paul Getty If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. J. Paul Getty The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. J. Paul Getty Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J. Paul Getty Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. J. Paul Getty The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. J. Paul Getty The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. J. Paul Getty In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. J. Paul Getty The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. J. Paul Getty In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J. Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? J. Paul Getty I've never been one to bet on the weather. J. Paul Getty You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred. J. Paul Getty Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. J. Paul Getty My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. J. Paul Getty There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. J. Paul Getty If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. J. Paul Getty Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. J. Paul Getty If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. J. Paul Getty Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. J. Paul Getty The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. J. Paul Getty You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. J. Paul Getty I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. J. Paul Getty Five wives can't all be wrong. J. Paul Getty I buy when other people are selling. J. Paul Getty To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. J. Paul Getty My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil. J. Paul Getty My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing. J. Paul Getty Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. J. Paul Getty My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. J. Paul Getty I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. J. Paul Getty Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. J. Paul Getty I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. J. Paul Getty What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. J. Paul Getty I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life. J. Paul Getty There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. J. Paul Getty I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put. J. Paul Getty How does one measure the success of a museum? J. Paul Getty No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. J. Paul Getty Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. J. Paul Getty Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock. J. Paul Getty I can afford to say what I wish. J. Paul Getty I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. J. Paul Getty There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection. J. Paul Getty Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. J. Paul Getty I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. J. Paul Getty A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. J. Paul Getty A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. J. Paul Getty During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. J. Paul Getty The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services. J. Paul Getty Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. J. Paul Getty I am - and have always been - a Methodist. J. Paul Getty Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s. J. Paul Getty I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. J. Paul Getty Oscar Niemeyer Quotes Brazilian - Architect December 15, 1907 - December 5, 2012 Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. Oscar Niemeyer The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. Oscar Niemeyer Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. Oscar Niemeyer I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. Oscar Niemeyer Surprise is key in all art. Oscar Niemeyer It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. Oscar Niemeyer There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. Oscar Niemeyer The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. Oscar Niemeyer Form follows beauty. Oscar Niemeyer Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. Oscar Niemeyer Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. Oscar Niemeyer Architecture is invention. Oscar Niemeyer Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. Oscar Niemeyer I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say. Oscar Niemeyer For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. Oscar Niemeyer I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. Oscar Niemeyer My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' Oscar Niemeyer Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world. Oscar Niemeyer I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much. Oscar Niemeyer It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. Oscar Niemeyer I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now. Oscar Niemeyer When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since. Oscar Niemeyer Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise. Oscar Niemeyer When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. Oscar Niemeyer I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. Oscar Niemeyer Muriel Rukeyser Quotes American - Poet December 15, 1913 - February 12, 1980 Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. Muriel Rukeyser The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. Muriel Rukeyser Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Muriel Rukeyser The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. Muriel Rukeyser The journey is my home. Muriel Rukeyser I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. Muriel Rukeyser In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. Muriel Rukeyser However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. Muriel Rukeyser I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. Muriel Rukeyser Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser Exchange is creation. Muriel Rukeyser If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Muriel Rukeyser Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. Muriel Rukeyser A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art. Muriel Rukeyser I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter. Muriel Rukeyser The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. Muriel Rukeyser The town of Gauley Bridge stands as a pattern for all those places where people are linked even in the middle of their suffering, where people fight against an evil condition so that other people need not go through the same fight. Muriel Rukeyser I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story. Muriel Rukeyser I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes the act of seeing and knowing by personal experience, as well as the act of giving evidence. Muriel Rukeyser It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster. Muriel Rukeyser Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention. Muriel Rukeyser One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. Muriel Rukeyser The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.' Muriel Rukeyser Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. Muriel Rukeyser