Quotes in the Spirit of James Dean

"If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man." - James Dean

"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars." - Jack Kerouac
"I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men." - Neal Cassady
 
"Actors die so loud." - Henry Miller

"Here's to the crazy ones. the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers. the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of the rules and have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. because they change things, they push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."  — Jack Kerouac

"I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything."  - Waylon Jennings

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness." - Allen Ginsberg

"Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels."  - Allen Ginsberg

"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles." - Charlie Chaplin

"Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow."  - Woody Guthrie

"All right, then, I'll go to hell." - Mark Twain
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." - Mark Twain

"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." - Henry Miller