quotes = new Array(); authors = new Array(); quotes[0] = "Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself."; authors[0] = "Joel Hawes"; quotes[1] = "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."; authors[1] = "Robert Heinlein"; quotes[2] = "Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven."; authors[2] = "John Milton"; quotes[3] = "You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress."; authors[3] = "Malcolm X"; quotes[4] = "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me"; authors[4] = "Hunter S. Thompson"; quotes[5] = "I confess, I do not believe in time. "; authors[5] = "Vladimir Nabokov"; quotes[6] = "Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy"; authors[6] = "Marshall McLuhan"; quotes[7] = "...you'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality are seldom rewarded, I'm sorry to say"; authors[7] = "Woody Allen (Crimes and Misdemeanors)"; quotes[8] = "No one can help you -- no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?"; authors[8] = "Rainier Marie Rilke"; quotes[9] = "More and more I believe we mustn't judge God by this world, as it is a study that has turned out badly. What do you do if you like an artist - you don't complain about his faulty sketches, you keep your mouth shut. However, you do have the right to demand better"; authors[9] = "Vincent Van Gogh"; quotes[10] = "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt."; authors[10] = "Bertrand Russell"; quotes[11] = "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."; authors[11] = "John Adams"; quotes[12] = "The food in this place is really terrible. Yes, and such small portions. That's essentially how I feel about life."; authors[12]= "Woody Allen (Annie Hall)"; quotes[13] = "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."; authors[13]= "Zora Neale Hurston"; quotes[14] = "Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else."; authors[14]= "Julian Jaynes"; quotes[15] = "The characteristics of the powerful, whatever they may be, are thought to be better than the characteristics of the powerless - and logic has nothing to do with it."; authors[15]= "Gloria Steinem"; quotes[16] = "America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."; authors[16]= "Hunter S. Thompson"; quotes[17] = "After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well."; authors[17]= "Albert Einstein"; quotes[18] = "Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right."; authors[18]= "Woody Allen"; quotes[19] = "Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away, you write, and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast. And if what is near you is far away, then your vastness is already among the stars and is very great; be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those that stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend."; authors[19]= "Rainier Marie Rilke"; quotes[20] = "-And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss."; authors[20]= "Rainier Marie Rilke"; quotes[21] = "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."; authors[21]= "Ray Bradbury"; quotes[22] = "I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definate proposal. Why, one might be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitment is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact."; authors[22]= "Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)"; quotes[23] = "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines."; authors[23]= "George Dyson"; quotes[24] = "As an artist, one is not a citizen of society. An artist is bound to explore every aspect of human experience, the darkest corners - not necessarily-- but if that is where one is led, that's where one must go. You cannot worry about what the structure of your own particular segment of society considers bad behavior, good behavior; good exploration, bad exploration. So, at the time you're being an artist, you're not a citizen. You have, in fact, no social responsibility whatsoever."; authors[24]= "David Cronenberg"; quotes[25] = "Oh! Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often."; authors[25]= "Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)"; quotes[26] = "There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one has the right to blame us"; authors[26]= "Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)"; quotes[27] = "We are animals at best, and love is merely passion with a holy name"; authors[27]= "Oscar Wilde (The Duchess of Padua)"; quotes[28] = "For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."; authors[28]= "Charles Bukowski"; quotes[29] = "An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way."; authors[29]= "Charles Bukowski (Notes From a Dirty Old Man)"; quotes[30] = "The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth -- it is the truth which conceals that there is none."; authors[30] = "Jean Baudrillard"; quotes[31] ="After all, why would people freely flock into McDonald\'s, wear Levi's, drive SUVs and watch Hollywood shlock? The problem with America's enormous \'soft power\' is that we hate the seducer as we hate ourselves for yielding to temptation."; authors[31] = "Josef Joffe (The American Interest)"; quotes[32] ="\'Thou shalt not be bigoted\' is the first commandment of the postmodern consciousness."; authors[32] = "Josef Joffe (The American Interest)"; quotes[33] ="The Committee isn't infallible; after all, it's made up of people."; authors[33] = "Nils Ringertz"; quotes[34] ="Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."; authors[34] = "Dr. Seuss"; quotes[35] ="No one can live on bread alone. We have got too many big fat fools walking around with everything in their stomachs and nothing in their heads."; authors[35] = "Dr. Lewis Michaux"; quotes[36] ="... however expert a man may be in arts and science, however famous and important, if he is scorned by women in the art of love, he is a dead man."; authors[36] = "Devadatta Shāstrī (the Kāma Sūtra - modern Hindi commentary)"; quotes[37] ="... the success of the scheme depends on the skill of the messenger."; authors[37] = "Bhavabhūti (Mālatī Mādhava)"; quotes[38] ="The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs less."; authors[38] = "Brendan Francis"; quotes[39] ="Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."; authors[39] = "Steve Jobs"; quotes[40] ="I wish to work miracles; - it may be that I shall possess less than other men of more peaceful lives, or than those who want to grow rich in a day."; authors[40] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[41] ="A jest. A priest, making the rounds of his parish on Easter Eve, and sprinkling holy water in the houses as is customary, came to a painter’s room, where he sprinkled the water on some of his pictures. The painter turned round, somewhat angered, and asked him why this sprinkling had been bestowed on his pictures; then said the priest that it was the custom and his duty to do so, and that he was doing good; and that he who did good might look for good in return, and, indeed, for better, since God had promised that every good deed that was done on earth should be rewarded a hundredfold from above. Then the painter, waiting till he went out, went to an upper window and flung a large pail of water on the priest’s back, saying: “Here is the reward a hundredfold from above, which you said would come from the good you had done me with your holy water, by which you have damaged my pictures.”"; authors[41] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[42] ="Pleasure and Pain represent as twins, since there never is one without the other; and as if they were united back to back, since they are contrary to each other."; authors[42] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[43] ="How the five senses are the ministers of the soul. The soul seems to reside in the judgment, and the judgment would seem to be seated in the part where all the senses meet; and this is called the Common Sense and is not all-pervading throughout the body, as many have thought."; authors[43] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[44] ="Open your eyes and look carefully lest your money should be spent in buying your own disgrace."; authors[44] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[45] ="Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in your youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment."; authors[45] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[46] ="For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."; authors[46] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[47] ="Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in."; authors[47] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[48] ="When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald."; authors[48] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[49] ="The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."; authors[49] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[50] ="He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss."; authors[50] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[51] ="He who thinks little, errs much."; authors[51] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[52] ="Be not false about the past."; authors[52] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[53] ="Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold."; authors[53] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[54] ="The subject with its form. The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensible objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved its base, the lover becomes base."; authors[54] = "Leonardo da Vinci"; quotes[55] ="I do not separate between fiction and fact."; authors[55] = "Nawal El Saadawi"; quotes[56] ="I had tea yesterday with a great theologian, and he asked me, 'What is your experience of God's will?' I liked that question - for the distillation of thought hones thought in others. Clarity I know is freedom. What is my experience of God's will? Everyone is a traveler. Most all need lodging, food and clothes. I let enter my mouth what will enrich me. I wear what will make my eye content. I sleep where I will wake with the strength to deeply love all my mind can hold."; authors[56] = "Saint Teresa of Avila"; quotes[57] ="Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."; authors[57] = "Dwight D. Eisenhower"; index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);