“There is peace even in the storm”
― Vincent van Gogh ... See MoreSee Less

"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapour is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
- John Muir ... See MoreSee Less

"As the night was fast falling, and as the moon, being past the full, would not rise early, we held a little council; a short one, for clearly our course was to lie by at the first lonely tavern we could find."
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens ... See MoreSee Less

"Bespectacled stare-out
British people in hot weather"
- The Fall ... See MoreSee Less

"He hurried through several alleys and streets, and at length turned into one, lighted only by a single lamp at the farther end."
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens ... See MoreSee Less

"Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage."
- Andy Warhol ... See MoreSee Less

"She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire."
- Charles Bukowski ... See MoreSee Less

"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
- Khalil Gibran ... See MoreSee Less

"The rainbow tints from the colored suns fell upon the glass city softly and gave to the buildings many delicate, shifting hues which were very pretty to see."
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum ... See MoreSee Less

"Wars have been plotted, dancing has lasted deep into the night,—murder has been done in its chambers."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh Picturesque Notes ... See MoreSee Less

"Life in us is like the water in a river."
- Henry David Thoreau ... See MoreSee Less

"It is as much a matter of course to decry the New Town as to exalt the Old; and the most celebrated authorities have picked out this quarter as the very emblem of what is condemnable in architecture."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes ... See MoreSee Less

"Meditative people will find a charm in a certain consonancy between the aspect of the city and its odd and stirring history."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Picturesque Notes ... See MoreSee Less

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer."
- Abraham Lincoln ... See MoreSee Less

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
- Vladimir Nabokov ... See MoreSee Less