Kawamata San Clemente Quotes

#1. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

John Stuart Mill

#2. Start ignoring people who threaten your joy.
literally, ignore them.
say nothing.
don't invite any parts of them into your space.

Alexandra Elle

#3. Time spent worrying - about anything - provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.

A.J. Darkholme

#4. I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.

John Waters

#5. The Prophet database (of course, the whole IT - computer geek - world called it the For-Profit database) was well written, but all the programs the mother company tried to sell with it were garbage.

Patricia Briggs

#6. An item must have a soul, it must function properly, be nice to hold and a pleasure to look at

Kay Bojesen

#7. We feel closer to those who are distant and farther from those who are close.

George Musser

#8. For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth
and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps and whatnot that show voice and make a book unique from all the other super shiny flat surfaces

Lori Foster

#9. You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Helen Gurley Brown