Nudis Verbis

Catacoma — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:45:18 +0000

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

-Stephen R. Covey

Catacoma — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:04:23 +0000

Art does not need to be deep. If I like a subject, I paint it. If I like a color, I use it.

Art is a way of expressing life’s complexities AND simplicities.

Tabitha Bianca Brown

Catacoma — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:19:29 +0000

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them. I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again. I grind them and grind them until they don’t exist.
Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card

Catacoma — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:49:55 +0000

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
-Douglas Adams

Catacoma — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:26:25 +0000

I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
-George Carlin

Catacoma — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:05:39 +0000

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are
but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do
is inconceivable.”

- Joseph Addison

Catacoma — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:58:27 +0000

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Catacoma — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:49:00 +0000

“Faring thee well now
Let your life proceed by its own designs
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, I’m done with mine.”

John Barlow, “Cassidy” (Grateful Dead)

Catacoma — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:32:55 +0000

It doesn’t matter what mistakes were made in the painting; it doesn’t matter how late we stayed awake thinking that we could have done it better. It’s done and it’s ours: all of the splotches and lines, the cracks in the paint from our very first experiments in living. And we still don’t know what it means.

Lyssarian Joy, “Possibly Unfinished”

Catacoma — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:28:23 +0000

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1893, spoken by the character Lord Illingworth