Posts tagged ‘Words’

May 22

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“The Cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” — Carl Sagan

Effing words, from a mad Yank in a Brit madhouse, pervade the premier edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.*

Small wonder that effing words skew the lens through which we view, upside-down and inside-out, the ineffable being in us.

Cosmic Selfies, by contrast, render a madman’s inner being effable, as few effing words can.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. — Rumi

Jun 2

“The only thing they can’t teach you at art school is art.” ―David Bailey

At the arts gymnasium of the Classical World, an Aristophanes ushers you up the steps to the highest stage, where some Ovid shoves you off.

“If you ever have a kid who doesn’t know what to do, stick him in art school. It’s amazing what evolves.”

―Ridley Scott

Oct 12

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” –Chief Joseph quote

A few simple words to live by…

Sep 16

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” –Sophocles quote

Iconish is the new lingua franca. Everyone understands it. There is no risk of miscommunication. Now we can all just get along.

“Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.” –Marilyn vos Savant

“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.” –Edward R. Murrow

“Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.” –Rumi quote