Historymakers Digital Archive Quotes

#1. There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.

Leo Kottke

#2. The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

Robert Henri

#3. The role of the Buddhist teacher is to explain your options and to show you what creates karma. All our discussions are basically karmic until you're fully engaged in samadhi.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning. Others, like Churchill, quickly chafe at missing interaction and opportunity.

William Manchester

#5. Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

Adyashanti

#6. Horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our scientific progress, there are still things out there that defy the rational, and can scare the living daylights out of us.

Peter James

#7. Not sure if you're awake, but know that I'm here. You saved my life earlier. I owe you everything. Hunter Beckman

Nikki Lynn Barrett

#8. When she awakened in the a.m. into blind-slit shrinking nowhereness, it had all gone disorientingly quiet, and she would imagine for a few seconds she was back there in that mausoleum of a ranch house in the San Fernando Valley.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.

Peter Drucker

#10. If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too.

Alice Walker

#11. The past is a closed door.

Margaret Atwood