"Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

--Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist

Back-Log of Quotes which were randomly dispersed these past two weeks...
Friday, Oct. 3

"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings."

George Tooker



Thursday, Oct. 2

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887



Friday, Sept. 26

"Many people say marriage is based on teamwork, so a polygamist just has more teammates."

--Towfiq Farraj, former Curie Decathlete

"A house without books is like a room without windows."

--Horace Mann

Wednesday's Quote
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."

--Henry Ford

"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."

-- TV listing for the movie, The Wizard of Oz,
in the Marin Paper.

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."

--Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)

"[Music] takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."

--W.H. Auden

"...[But] they can't kill music. God knows, they've tried. But music always wins. As long as there's kids coming up that have a passion. All the bean counters in the world can't kill that. You know? You just can't. They can try, of course, to feed you the most puerile, benign horse manure, but some kid's going to come along and demand something more than that."

--John Hiatt

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

--Aldous Huxley