Robert Aitken Quotes

#1. There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

Earle Birney

#3. Whuf added the dragon.

Rick Cook

#4. Then babe, I'm the lucky one because with you, I'm not settin' shit aside. And with me, I think you already get without really knowin' that you always will.

Kristen Ashley

#5. Watching gardeners label their plants
I vow with all beings
to practice the old horticulture
and let plants identify me.

Robert Aitken

#6. It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter.

Neil Postman

#7. Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

Robert Baker Aitken

#8. It's not the lack of resources that cause failure, it's the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.

Tony Robbins

#9. A lie is an excuse guarded

Jonathan Swift

#10. If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.

Robert Aitken

#12. Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

Alejandro Jodorowsky