A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!) – Walt Whitman
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall
An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. – Theodor Adorno
The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all — he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. – Albert Camus
Lets stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime. – Carrie P. Meek
