Monday, September 30, 2013

Petaluma

 "The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 Signs placed along Highway 101 in Petaluma, California.
 "People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think." - George Carlin

 "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
 - Grace Hopper

 "We need a science to save us from science."
 - Bertrand Russell
 "Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess."
 - Giacomo Casanova
YTD - 584

Monday, September 23, 2013

I-80 Berkeley

 "If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."
- Rudyard Kipling
 Signs placed over and alongside I-80 in Berkeley California.
 "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
 "It's not so much a living hell, it's just a dying fiction." - Brian Eno
 "Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity." - Isocrates

 "Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich." - Peter Ustinov
 "The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery." - Albert Schweitzer
YTD - 575

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Los Angeles

 "God is a lousy editor." - Billy Wilder
 Signs placed over and alongside freeways in Los Angeles.
 "I believe there's something for us after we die. The world isn't wasteful." - Lillian Gish
 "Life is very, very complicated and so films should be allowed to be too." - David Lynch

 "A planned life is a dead life." - Lauren Bacall

 "Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end." - David Niven
 "There is only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education." - Will Rogers
 "Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much." - Luis Bunuel
 "There's no such thing as not being afraid." - Robert DeNiro
YTD - 566

Friday, September 13, 2013

Marin County

 "Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics." - Seth Lloyd
 Signs placed alongside and over Highway 101 in Marin County.
 "When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So, it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are." - Cesar Chavez
 "All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda." - Upton Sinclair
 "We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world." - Neil Gaiman

 "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." - Tom Lehrer
 "Man is free at the instant he wants to be." - Voltaire
YTD - 554

Monday, September 09, 2013

Novato, CA


"We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it." - Kenneth Tynan
 Signs placed along Highway 101 in Novato, California.

 "Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." - Aldous Huxley
 "If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

 "Don't worry about your heart, it'll last you as long as you live." - W.C. Fields
 "A dog starved at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state."
- William Blake
 "The future is like the Jetsons, plus rape." - Johannes Grenzfurthner
YTD - 545

Thursday, September 05, 2013

Berkeley

 "Do all you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you are." - Nkosi Johnson
 Signs placed over and alongside Interstate 80 in Berkeley, California.

 "Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers." - Quintus Curtius Rufus
 "What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world." - Ken Kesey

 "The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation." - Jacob Bronowski
 "Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?'" - Neil Gaiman
 "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying." 
-Robert Herrick
YTD - 535