Artistic Footprint

Over the years I have grown a list of quotes that I either live by, or just think that someone should live by. Literally grown. There’s a bulbous lump the size of a toothbrush and the texture of an orange peel on the inside of my thigh. It chafes. This is the best of. I hope to give credit where credit is due, but I accidentally forgot to write down where I got these from so…. “oops I’m sorry?”

1. “Weapon, Kit, Self” – Canadian Army
2. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no-one” – Che Guevera
3. “Unless we change the direction we’re heading, we might end up where we’re going”
4. “I’m going to live my life for the children I’m never going to be able to have…”
5. “I’m a monogamous man. I just haven’t found her yet”
6. “This is for the statisticians… The ones with the real answers”
7. “Reward your mind at the expense of your body” – Me
8. “2012 is an inside job”
9. “Nothing is fact. Everything is interpretation” – Me
10. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first” – Mark Twain
11. “Your career in fire will be a constant evaluation of how much you try” – James Morgan
12. “Religion is Flawed, but only because man is flawed” – script from Angels and Demons
13. “It takes more courage to build than to destroy” – Jimmy Wales
14. “You won’t get something right until you’ve gotten it wrong” – CSPS patroller
15. “So Long as you get time to soberly reflect on your alcoholism, you’re not an alcoholic” – Me
16. “Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted”
17. “The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is good men to do nothing”
18. “I hope they don’t find oil here. Then we’d be REAL fucked” – Cast from Blood Diamond regarding famine and genocide.
19. “Ice cream is like pizza or sex. There CAN be bad ice cream, pizza, or sex, but it’s still ice cream, pizza, or sex.” – Katie Lewis
20. “Faith is caught, not taught”
21. “Find ‘em hot, Leave ‘em wet. Put the wet stuff on the red stuff”
22. “Hope for the Best, Expect the Worst” – Me
23. “Just because you spray water doesn’t mean you walk on it”
24. “Nature is nothing without purpose” – Aristotle
25. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get” – Carl Hayden
26. “True merit is like a river. The deeper it is the less noise it makes.” – Lord Halifax
27. “There’s no sex in the champagne room” – Chris Rock
28. “You can only work as fast as you can” – Head chef at Roger Fish, Neutral Bay, Australia
29. “The mans obligation is to stick is boneration in the woman’s separation” – Kelsey Pollock
30. “Nobody ever gave it their best and regretted it” – George Halas
31. “The world is no larger than the range of their bullets” – Me.
32. “The word ‘modern’ first appeared in the English language toward the end of the 16th century. In the beginning with it meant little more than being of the present time, but slowly it came to carry a sense of novelty. ‘Modern’ meant something that had never existed before. The idea was conceived that the future would be different from the past. This idea itself was new.” – John Hest
33. “If you’re gonna be whipped, Pussy’s not a bad thing to be whipped by.” – Don Fox.
34. “Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself in the eyes of others.” – Ellen Degeneres.
35. “Sometimes you’re the windsheild, sometimes you’re the bug” – Dire Straits.
36. “Community Service don’t sell records.” – DVS (Detroit Velvet Smooth)
37. “I Smell Burnt Toast.”
38. “The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the meat.” – Lee St. Arnault
39. “When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.” – Richard Dawkins
40. Smile
    A smile costs nothing, but it gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making the poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he can get along without it, and none is so poor but that he can be made rich by it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business, and is the countersign of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and it is nature’s best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give. – Unknown
41. “Everest exposes who you are and what your character is, and that’s not always a pretty thing.”"The reality may be that you may not be able to save somebody, but even if you do nothing else but sit down with them in their last moments and they have something to tell you, that’s not a small thing, and eventhough I may not be able to lift them up and carry them over my shoulders, I think you still have that obligation, that human connection.” – Beck Weathers, miracle survivor who literally awoke from a hypothermic coma after spending 8 hours above 8000m, and climbed down to be with his children again.
42. Getting to the top is optional, but getting back down is compulsory” – Everest Climber
43. “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
    Then he is not omnipotent.
    Is he able, but not willing?
    Then he is malevolent.
    Is he both able and willing?
    Then whence cometh evil?
    Is he neither able nor willing?
    Then why call him God?”-Epicurus
44. Blasphemy is a victimless crime
45. “I reject your reality, and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage
46. “Don’t be a baked potatoe” – post-it note beside a fire shelter.
47. “Don’t cut your foot off”
48. “A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood” – General Patton
49. “Function over fashion, Quality over Quantity” – Me
50. “I’ve never brought a transvestite home with me” … “Define ‘home with me’ ” – I’ve never game
51. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. – Andre Gide
52. “You can go and get your appetite anywhere, so long as you get your appetite at home” – Alex Morrissey
53. “There ain’t no place just like this place anywhere near this place, so this must be the place” – smalltown storefront from Yellowstone in the 1960′s.
54. “Everything you can imagine is real” – Pablo Picasso
55. “It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission”
56. “Confidence comes from the confidence with your flaws” – Me
57. “Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. No one is entitled to their own facts” – Me.
58. “I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to end up safely at death.”
59. “Many would call me an adventurer, but I am… I am a different kind of adventurer… One that risks his life for the truth” – Che.
60. “Quit using my name to justify your decisions” “Don’t make me come down there” – God.
61. “DON’T FUCK UP” – James Bergen (in the doorway, 1500 ft up)
62. “You gotta have the DRIVE, the Talent, and the FOCUS!!! – AND you Can’t FUCK UP!” – James Bergen.
63. “On the bus off the bus” “Hurry up and wait” “If you’re not 5 minutes early, you’re 10 minutes late” – Army sayings.
64. “Death is inevitable – Life is up to you” – Me.
65. You can waste your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them
66. to Love is to be unable to be without
67. Everywhere civilisation goes, wilderness backs away
68. You can’t trust yourself 3 days ago so always pack ready
69. Get two birds stoned at once – ricky
70. Roll out with your pole out jam out with your clam out
71. Favourite last words: “you guys listen to country?”
72. Even if you do come up with the meaning of life, its only relative to you
73. Fear is the place where we are our strongest and our weakest
74. “All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” – Te lawrence
75. Would you patent the sun? – dr. Salks
76. GNP measures everything except that which makes worthwhile – robert kennedy
77. Man is always down for sex – except during he playoffs. But women get hotter during that time anyways
78. Tao: undefinable to nonparticipants
79. Pablo Picasso: (on computers): for me, they are basically useless because all they can do is provide solutions. What we need are people who can ask the right questions”
80. “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” – Col. David H. Hackworth
81. “It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that’s dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It’s so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can’t say the things you want to.” ~ Henry Rollins
82. People cry not because they’re weak but because they’ve been strong for too long.
83. “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”
    — Jim Jarmusch
84. “Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity

Please hook me up with what you’ve heard or made up. This is the spot.