Basebone Tablet Quotes

#1. When you hear the elephant music you're hearing what they mean to make.

Dave Soldier

#2. History is defined by people who don't really understand what they are defining.

Chuck Klosterman

#3. I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.

Shane Claiborne

#4. I read the newspaper online. Mostly 'The New York Times.' I'll still buy papers if I'm getting on an airplane or the tour bus, though. I like physical things.

Conor Oberst

#5. I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. I act most like myself ... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

Junot Diaz

#7. I've never been so jealous of water before." His fingers slid over my skin. "How it can touch you everywhere - all at once.

Tara Sue Me

#8. I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints ... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.

Douglas Coupland

#9. But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#10. It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Benjamin Rush

#11. Happiness is not yesterday; it's from now on.

Richard Rice

#12. I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician

Charlie Chaplin

#13. Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

Pablo Neruda

#14. How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.

Sam Abell