SUGAR + MEOWS

Inspiration and Delight

The mood board of my life. I like cats, science, art, ephemera, classic Hollywood, fashion, mysticism, oddities, and my home of New York City.

Posts tagged quote

Jun 15

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (German, 1844–1900)

Apr 26

“There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” – Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

Mar 31

“The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.” – Honoré de Balzac, from his Treatise on Elegant Living (1829–30), Chapter V, XLII

Mar 25

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Mar 19

“You don’t get shit you don’t ask for.” – Jason Friedman

Feb 21

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin

Feb 14

“Wear pink and make the boys wink!” – Lilly Pulitzer (b.1931)

Jan 31

“If you can draw a relationship, it can exist. The world keeps opening up, unfolding, and just when we expect it to be closed – to be a sealed sensible box – it shows us something completely surprising. In fact, the result and possibly unacknowledged aim of science may be to know how much it is that we don’t know, rather than what we do think we know. What we think we know we probably aren’t really sure of anyway. At least if can get a sense of what we don’t know, we don’t be guilty of the hubris of thinking we know any of it. Science’s job is to map our ignorance.” – David Byrne

Jan 26

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” – Salvador Dalí (1904–89, Spanish)

Jan 24

“Success in life is directly proportional to the number of awkward conversations you’re willing to have.” – Unknown

Jan 22

“If you can’t explain it to a six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” – Albert Einstein (1879–1955)

Jan 18

“Without obsession, life is nothing.” – John Waters (American, b.1946)

Dec 27

– Robert Lynd, from The Pleasures of Ignorance (1921)

Dec 19

“His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.” – Elias Canetti (Swiss, 1905–94)

Dec 17

“If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” – Mark Twain (American, 1835–1910)

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