"It makes no difference where you go ...there you are."

“Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.”

Source : Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.699, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?”

Source : "Artful Survivor". Interview with Deborah Salomon, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 1989.

“The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.”

“I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...”

“Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.”

“As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.”

“I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.”

“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.”

Source : George Meredith (1862). “Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads”, p.203