Uppercase Subscription Giveaway!
publisher janine vangool at uppercase was so happy and grateful for all of you who hopped over to their site to check out the new issue of uppercase magazine (the most web referrals for the week came from sfgirlbybay readers!). so as a thank you, uppercase is giving away a free 4-issue subscription to the Uppercase quarterly magazine to one lucky sfgirlbybay reader.
just comment below – just for fun, why don’t you share with us your favorite quote by friday, october 9 at midnight and we’ll choose one lucky winner from the comments and announce a winner next week (remember to include a way to get in touch with you!) and thanks uppercase! for a sneak peek of uppercase – visit here (and be sure and check out the shop and blog, too).
“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” -Ansel Adams
yay, i hope i win. i LOVE uppercase! :)
There’s no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it.
::: Henry Moore :::
ahhh..pick me, please! <3
I would love a subscription!
My favorite quote. “Only a double bow will do” -Damiel (Bruno Ganz) as he bends down to tie the shoe of a young child in an empty lot in Berlin.
“A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.” Roland Barthes.
i hope i win, the magazine is so great, and i am so broke…
“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in face irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every eveasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.” – Joan Didion
i covet uppercase!
“Mama, stop talking. Just hold my hand.”
-Sebastian, age 3
Thanks for being fabulous ALL of the time!
At this moment this: “It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.” – Emma Thompson
xo
Kelly
ps: thanks for the chance, it’s an amazing mag in a time of so many folding…
‘we must always maintain the supremacy of compassion over ideology.’ – h.h. dalai lama
(oh uppercase…*swoon*)
great giveaway and it’s fun to read all the quotes.
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” George Sand
“Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.” — Steve Martin
“Happiness doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” -Anonymous
Yay.
“no matter. try again. fail. fail again. fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
“Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud. Love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable. Love does not keep a record of wrongs, love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and it’s faith, hope and patience, never fail.”
“It has to be great, good is not enough.”
I always enjoy reading “Hope of gain lessens pain” on Rockefeller University t-shirts :) I believe it’s Benjamin Franklin.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Really enjoyed reading other quotes here.
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” –Anais Nin
Hi there… I’m from Brasil, am I able to participate too?
Anyway… ‘Coming early is not as good as coming just at the right moment’.
Really nice blog you have! =)
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” -Katherine Hepburn
Loving all your favorite quotes!!
mariana = yes that’s fine!
What a joy reading the other quotes!
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
-Anais Nin
Lovely magazine!
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” Martin Luther King Jr.
Love Uppercase!
“The world is smaller than you think and the people in it are more beautiful than you think.”
– Bertrand Russell
“The difference between mediocrity and excellence is attention to detail.” – Sebastian J. Barbarito
(As quoted to me by my high school art teacher, the incomparable Ms. Kennard.)
great magazine.
I have lots of favorite quotes, but here’s one of them:
“finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day. you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” emerson
I would love this!! favorite quote:
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
–Albert Camu
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
-Bertrand Russell
Hurray for Uppercase! I’d LOVE to win this…
“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.” Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” – Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast)
what a lovely magazine to be featured on such a wonderful blog!
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I have two favorites to share:
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Nietzsche
“if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain” – Dolly Parton
=^.^=
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.”
–Paul Rand
an uppercase subscription would make my month!
Ever present, never twice the same;
Ever changing, never less than whole.
-Robert Irwin
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect). -Mark Twain
“I was so distracted thinking about you this morning that I brushed my teeth with face wash. It was worth it.” -Anonymous
I just found that one today. Haha! It made me smile.
Oh and that magazine is adorable! Hope I win!
Wisdom comes with winters ~ oscar wilde
Appropriate for those of us in the northeast! A subscription would keep me cozy for the up-coming hibernation!
“Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.”
— Minor Myers, Jr., President of Illinois Wesleyan Unviersity while I was a student there.
Uppercase!
“There’s no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.” – Rufus Wainwright
Oh, I would love this! My favorite quote for the moment:
“There are people who have money and people who are rich” -Coco Chanel
“ I don’t believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.” – Sebastiao Salgado
“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned.” –Ayn Rand
I love Uppercase!
Oh I would love this
“Start living now. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift.” -Mary Manin Morrisey
I love this quote:
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
– Charles Bukowski
Great magazine!
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? – Hunter S. Thompson
If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Mark Twain said, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.”
– Georgia O’Keefe
“Life is meaningless if your not obsessed” – Pecker
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
eeeee! so exciting! what a great giveaway!!
“Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
A. R. Ammons
I would love to win!!!
This is a long quote but it covers something that is very much on my mind!
In the early thirties there was a great deal of controversy whether modern architecture was here to stay or not. Back home, there was considerable doubt about it. Architects were still covering their buildings with pilasters and columns and arches and all that, which, I must say, look better today than they did when we were in rebellion against them. But in Rome the extraordinary thing I learned was that everything is modern. You would be walking down a street past a 15th-century palazzo and sticking out of the wall of the palazzo would be the ruin of an arch; the palazzo was built around the ruin centuries older than the palazzo. Then, because business wasn’t good in Rome either, a corner of this palace had been remodeled and somebody has put in an ultramodern candy shop. So there were these three epochs coexisting in one building. And suddenly you realized the obvious, that everything worth anything is always modern because it can’t be anything else, and therefore there are no flags to wave, no manifestoes, you just do the only thing you can honestly do now.
– George Nelson, Dwell, July/August 2007.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world!” By M Ghandi
Great Blogg, it gives me so much inspiration! Thanx!
“I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”–WB Yeats
I would treasure a subscription to Uppercase, pick me!
YES PLEASE!
i love love love uppercase….
“Our journey as Human Beings is not following a pre-ordained path, but about creating that path. Life rarely makes any more sense when things are done ‘in order.’ Life makes sense when we are centered in our hearts and we let go of resisting how our unique journey needs to unfold in it’s own beautifully unruly way.” ~unknown
Love this blog site! Keep on postin!
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck”
–The Dalai Lama
I’d love a subscription. :)
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl
<3 uppercase!
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. —Alan Alda
I’ve been drained all summer, Uppercase could cure me!
“Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.”
We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.
The munsters family credo
Thanks for introducing me to this beautiful magazine!
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
~Mary Oliver
“How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don’t let anybody tell you any different.” -Kurt Vonnegut
Thanks to you and Uppercase for the giveaway!
Oh that, I thought of that on my bicycle.
-Einstein on the theory of relativity
Thanks for the giveaway!
“Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we’re trying to decide what to do with it.”
unknown
what lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us ~emerson
thanks for the website, thanks for the giveaway!
“you make each day special, just by your being you.”
-mr. rogers
Thank you for the giveaway! My quote comes from one of my favorite movies of all time, and what I’ve found to be a wonderfully true lesson for life:
“My mother used to say to me, ‘In this world, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.’ Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.” –Elwood P. Dowd, from the 1950 movie, Harvey
I have many, but one I always go back to is from the Gary Snyder poem “learning”:
stay together
learn the flowers
go light
Thank you for the giveaway!
I adore quotes! My favorite of the day is…
“When I get a little money I buy books; if any is left, I buy food and clothes.” – Erasmus
Thanks for introducing me to the awesomeness of Uppercase! I’d love a subscription :)
I just wrote a quote from my favorite author but had to erase it because it was more about making me look pensive than being honest. My FAVORITE quote comes from my very hilarious best friend Lyddy:
“Good call on those margarita cupcakes. You should make a bunch of cocktail inspired cupcakes…Mojito cupcakes with mint, Cosmo cupcakes with cranberry, vodka cupcakes with my mascara smeared on them.”
Uppercase is so fantastic! I’d die of happiness!
I’m typically not one for quoting politicians, but my latest favorite quote is actually from Obama’s Inauguration speech…
“Our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness”
I think more people should think of our differences this way, it would go a long way toward strengthening the country as a whole!
I’ve been thinking about subscribing to Uppercase for a while!
“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful … Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”— Milan Kundera
“Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring” – St. Catherine of Sienna
it aint such a long drop from the diamonds in the sidewalk to the dirt in the gutter
“The object of art is to give life a shape.”
Shakespeare
erich kästner was a wise man: “actions speak louder than words.”
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Uppercase seems amazing! I’d love to win!
my quote is “when it pours, it rains”
Thanks for considering!
“Our life expands or contracts according to our courage.”
Thank you for another lovely giveaway!
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. -Stephen R Covey
Looks like a great mag!
“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.”
Reminds me to always go for it!
thank you!
Lovely idea, this giveaway.
“The whole secret of art is to care for the thing, not for oneself.” -Lyn Hejinian
Fantastic — thanks for hosting this!
My favourite quote, from a friend of mine: “It always works out in the end. If it’s not working out, it’s not the end yet.”
K.
It’s long but lovely like Uppercase:
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air, explode softly and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air, floating down to earth: boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn’t go cheap, either—not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. —Robert Fulghum
Your magazine is like candy for the eyes!! I’m fully addicted!! I need another hit of uppercase!!
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” -Katherine Hepburn
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
I <3 Uppercase- and your blog!
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
-Orsen Welles
Lovely contest idea for a lovely magazine!
My favorite quote: “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
–Joseph Campbell
Conscience: the inner voice that warns us someone may be looking. ~h.l. mencken
So many great quotes already! I love it. One that I love but some might take alittle harshly:
“Just because you own a nikon doesn’t make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon on owner.”
I wish I knew who the author was. For whatever reason I find the quote inspirational. I’m always striving to be a better photographer and not just a camera owner. Goodluck to everyone.
Sweet! I follow Uppercase’s blog, but don’t have a subscription. A recent favorite, though I didn’t get the origin: “The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can do only a little.”
What a great contest!
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” Gore Vidal
Thanks for having this contest – lots of interesting quotes to read!
‘Twixt the optimist and pessimist
The difference is droll:
The optimist sees the donut
But the pessimist sees the hole.
– McLandburgh Wilson
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
-Dr. Seuss
“simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”- Leonardo Da Vinci
“This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.” -John Steinbeck
simple & sweet:
“Keep in the sunlight.” -Benjamin Franklin
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination – Oscar Wilde
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
—Albert Einstein
Imagine if I won!
“When you reach the top of the ladder, turn around and lift somebody else up.” – Ralph from the Off The Street Club (an after school program like the Boys & Girls Club)
“Then the time came when the risk it took to stay tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to bloom.” ~Anais Nin
“Be who you are and say what you mean, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” ~Dr. Seuss
wow, thanks uppercase! this is such a generous giveaway. my current favorite quote:
“but i always think that the best way
to know god is to love many things” –vincent van gogh
*jumps up and down* Best giveaway EVER! :D
“Happiness is anyone and anything loved by you.” -Charlie Brown
“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
– PLATO
“Adventure without risk is Disneyland”
— Douglas Coupland
yay uppercase!
So wonderful…!
“Pleasure for an hour, a bottle of wine; pleasure for a year, marriage; pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.”
by Chinese saying
“peace is always beautiful.” ~walt whitman
“you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”–Wayne Gretzky
Hope I win!
I love Uppercase! Here is a quote I keep handy for myself and my students:
“A man who does not read good books is no better than a man who does not read.” – Mark Twain
“She couldn’t make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom – a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung about him. He was a glance from god.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“it is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them”‘ – r.w. emerson
crossing my fingers for that uppercase subscription!
fave quote- “tomorrow is a brand new day!”
thanks!!
Trish
eek! exciting – i love uppercase!!
a quote i am keeping in mind lately is:
if you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
“”OK,” I said, not knowing what else to say. “Sounds good.” It was the midwestern girl’s reply to everything.” -A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
yay uppercase!
to paraphrase donald judd: “the space around an object is as important as the object itself.”
even though i don’t always follow this advice…
“Never, EVER, EVER trust anyone who says they don’t like dogs! You meet someone who doesn’t like dogs you alert the authorities IMMEDIATELY and you sure as SHIT don’t MARRY THEM!” -Dr. Squires, The Wackness
“I dunno, why?”
-My boyfriend’s response when asked his favorite quote.
Pick meeeee!!
Lovely giveaway! I was thrilled to see the online sneak peek too, props to UPPERCASE for that!
“If I make the clackity noise long enough every day, the ‘writing’ seems to take care of itself.”
– Merlin Mann
My favorite quote is: “a ship is safe in the harbor but that is not what they were built for.” Thanks for the chance!
Bessie Braddock: “Sir, you are drunk.”
Churchill: “And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.”
Love the blog, love the mag.
Love love this magazine, sneak peak is ridiculous…
Quote that keeps me moving forward (besides that quote itself, – Walt Disney “Keep moving forward”, ever inspiring) a fave is “Everything began as an idea in someones head” reminds me the ideas in my head can become something as well!!
My favorite quote at the moment is:
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.” -William James
“I don’t do fashion, I am fashion.” – Coco Chanel
What a lovely giveaway!
I’m enjoying all these quotes as well.
I don’t know that I have a favorite, but here’s a great one that comes to mind:
“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream of things that never were, and ask, ‘Why not?'” — Robert Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
I have never heard of Uppercase untill this post. It looks amazing! I would love to have a subscription.
“If there is a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
– Toni Morrison
winning this would be like a dream. i looong for uppercase magazine.
not sure who said this or even where i read it but i am trying to focus on these words lately: ‘judge your success by what you had to give up in order to achieve it’.
we can get there x
Oh, how fun!
My two favorite quotes:
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
-Mary Anne Radmacher
Well i never knew this: “printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters”
Hope I win, love the magazine
“what goes around comes around”
Love love love Uppercase!
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there. – Rumi
Yay I hope you pick me!
You’re more punk, hardcore, mod, straightedge, emo, indie than me. Your hair is cooler, your pants are tighter, you have more tattoos. You have cooler pins on your messenger bag and your favorite band is more obscure than mine. Your shoes are more vintage and so is your t-shirt. You own more black clothes than me. Your glasses are thicker and blacker than mine, the plugs in your ears are bigger. You know more people in bands and your black jelly bracelets are the envy of scenesters everywhere. Your photography is blacker and whiter, your Makeoutclub profile is wittier, and you have much better soul records. Your tie is whiter, or redder, or blacker. Your scene points are double, perhaps triple, mine. Because as we all know, that’s what really matters. In a scene where the music has taken a backseat to the haircuts, you win and I lose.” Kelly Carroll.
What a great giveaway!! i love uppercase
“Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”
It’s written on the blackboard in our living room!
“oh Christ I would love a subsription to Uppercase but the postage to Australia is a killer” – Stephanie Morgan (that’d be me)
If I win and you can post UC to me for no charge, contact me at htspunch@hotmail.com
Or maybe sell it in Australia!! Much <3
“you can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water”
Rabindranath Tagore
Although, I am just sitting here and hoping YOU Will PICK ME.
Albert Einstein –
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
It had to be Mr Einstein we share our birthdays. Hope Australian entrants are ok too!
“Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity…” – Gilda Radner
Love this quote. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway! Uppercase is fantastic.
“Sometimes we find our destiny on the road we chose to avoid it.”
-Kung Fu Panda
Hope I win! Thanks for the giveaway!!
“From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker’s search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every pull draws us to the ocean.” Rumi
Two favorites:
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. ~Coco Chanel
Lovely giveaway!
I’m very excited to enter this giveaway! I love Uppercase (or what I have see of it, for I am too poor to get it) but maybe this will change things :)
Also, this quote: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Ghandi
…is one of my favorites because it is so simple, yet says so much. Change can be small or big so this can be applied to anything you want in your life. I love it and it empowers me to be a better person everyday. I’ve also enjoyed reading everyone’s quotes :)
reading all these quotes is making me so happy and a little teary eyed.
“a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing” -Oscar Wilde
Time and money are inversely proportionate… To spend less of one, you must spend exponentially more of the other.”
I’ve found this to be SO true in life – but never as clearly as when we bought our historic home and have had to always decide “Do we do this repair/project/renovation, or do we HIRE SOMEONE this time?!” :)
Thank you for this great giveaway. I blogged about Uppercase last week, and now it’s so nice to have a second opportunity to win the mags.
Thanks so much!
Ruth
I love you blog! Thanks for the giveaway.
“Meddle not in the affairs of the dragon; for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.”
my favorite quote is “creativity is making mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep”
i’ve been admiring uppercase magazine for awhile, thanks for doing this giveaway!
My favorite quote is from Marie Curie: “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” It is harder to live by sometimes over others but I always try and keep it in mind.
My most recent quote:
“What a superbly featured room and what excellent boiled potatoes. Many years since I’ve had such an exemplary vegetable.”
What a superb giveaway!!
“If you can’t do something with passion, don’t” – Patsy Cline
Maybe this is a little cliche, but it hit me hard when I read it for the first time.
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
I would relish every page if I won!
“By itself it’s just a cold metaillic thing, Only love can make a golden wedding ring” – Bobby Braddock
Would love to win! Thanks!!
“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.” Jean Kerr
BEST GIVEAWAY EVER!!!
“I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.”
– Tom Hanks as Joe FOX in You’ve Got Mail
Best,
Kristina
ME!
« I’m married to the past…but having a fling with the future ! » – Ruth Gordon
Hi there ! I just checked out the magazine and it’s super great . I would looove a subscribtion . One of my fav quotes is “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein “
At the moment:
“You are being shagged by a rare parrot.”
Stephen Fry
and my new *always quote*…
“Words begin as description. They are prismatic, vehicles of hidden, deeper shades of thought. You can hold them up at different angles until the light bursts through in an unexpected colour.”
Susan Brind Morrow
“The Names of Things”
from
“The Anthropology of Turquoise”
Ellen Meloy
Love the bursting, vibrant creativity of Uppercase!
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” – Anais Nin
“Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning.” – George W. Bush
WhoooOhooo Uppercase!
“NO SOUP FOR YOU!”
“We were created with a great purpose, Are you living up to your calling? There are people who don’t have the opportunity to live a life worth dreaming of, and they need you to pursue great dreams for them. They need you to live up to your opportunity so they might have one.” -Erwin McManus
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings
Yay Uppercase!
My favorite quote;
“A strong woman knows how to keep her life in order.
With tears in her eyes she’s still able to say I’m ok.”
Hope I win :-> Love Uppercase Magazine!
I’d love to win a subscription!
My favorite quote,
Andy Warhol
“I am a deeply superficial person.”
Must…get…Uppercase subscription.
Favorite quote:
“Do not wait for inspiration to strike, strike at inspiration”
I think I made that one up myself when I got tired of my blocked artistic excuses…but SOMEONE MUST have said it before.
Lovely quotes! And love love love Uppercase!
One quote that I try to keep in mind is:
“Everyone dies. Not everyone really lives.”
My goodness! A subscription to Uppercase would be so lovely! Especially as you can’t buy it here in New Zealand.
I found this quote in a letterpress print featured on a blog (possibly even this one) a couple of weeks ago! It’s now written on my fridge as a reminder of my Mother’s method of coping with life.
“There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea”. Bernard-Paul Heroux
October 9th is my birthday! Pick me!! Also hoping that participation from India is okay.
I have three favorites actually, each for a different mood:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Einstein
“Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
– Scott Adam
“Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like”
– Mary Crawford in Jane Austens Mansfield Park
I’d love to have a subscription on Uppercase – inspiratin this way, please:)
“I’d like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.” Dee Dee Ramone’s acceptance speech on being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
:) Thank you!
“Even difficult things may be done quickly,
only impossible ones need a little more time..”
(don’t remember the author though….)
Don’t dots need legs to polka? By/via Volksfaden
“I’m most excited about making things everyday, without really worrying if they’ll ever sell or fit into some show…I need to work out ideas, regardless of whether they are ‘for’ something. My main concern is that time is always running out.” – Bill Dunlap
My favorite quote: Sometimes there are little glimpses of the perfection, amidst the mess. It is at those times we feel blessed beyond measure.-Keri Smith
I LOVE UPPERCASE magazine.. thanks for the chance!
‘There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in’ – Leonard Cohen
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” Dorothy Parker
“we don’t see things as they are, we see things as WE are” anais nin
I’m sorry but I do not dare translating it to English
“De deux choses lune
l’autre c’est le soleil”
from a Jacques Prévert poem in Paroles book.
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman’s brain! – Anna Garlin-Spencer
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” – Bertrand Russell
Thanks for the opportunity to finally get my hands on this magazine!
raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…
too many fab quotes to read up there, too little time.
mine are:
“A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.”
“I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.”
“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
All three from Calvin & Hobbes (so many I could choose but this is today’s mood ;)
“Living well is the best revenge”
George Herbert(metaphysical poet)
Just in time…I only have one issue left on my current subscription! Fav quote, “You can always make money but you can never buy back time.”
Here is one of my favs:
“It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter” – Marlene Dietrich
oh this is to good to be true!
Thanks for introducing us to uppercase — so wonderful!
It’s been great fun to read all these quotes, too — here’s my favorite: “Each bird must sing with his own throat.” – Henrik Ibsen
“i have no special gift. i’m just passionately curious.” —eisnstein
What a great giveaway – Uppercase is fantastic but a a luxury I can’t afford, so I’d love to win. :) Here’s one of my favorite quotes:
“By all means, let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains fall out.” – Richard Dawkins
From the film Heathers (between Winona Ryder and Shannen Doherty):
“Heather, why are you such a megabitch?”
“Because I can be”
Favorite quote:
“The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet,” Emerson.
Thanks for the giveaway!
i don’t know who said it, or maybe it’s just something i’ve been saying so long… “i learn something new everyday.”
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Lives of great men remind us
we can make our lives sublime
and departing, leave behind us
footsteps on the sands of time
-hwl
“I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
“before my death, I hope to obtain my life”
from What Can We Do? by Charles Bukowski
because life isn’t just about breathing, sleeping, eating, working… and sometimes it’s hard to remember that.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Thanks for the giveaway.
I used to have this quote typed out and hanging on the wall.
” The difficult must become habit,
habit easy, and the easy beautiful.”
Prince Sergei Volkonsky
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” Haruki Murakami
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound — if I can remember any of the damn things. – Dorothy Parker
“Normal is so overrated”
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” – Benjamin Franklin
“Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.” from the movie Juno
“Life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
I just found one of my favourite quotes today, written on the back of an old photo:
“Life, like music…is better when improvised!”
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~George Eliot
“I get older, they stay the same age…yes they do…” – Wooderson, Dazed and Confused.
I’d love to win this sub!
“It’s the journey that’s important,
Not the getting there!” -John McLeod
“Happiness… not another place but this place. Not for another hour but this hour.”
-Walt Whitman
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
“Not all who wander are lost”
Subscription to UPPERCASE? Oooh ooooh, me, me!
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” – Jack Kerouac
“Faith is hope holding out its hand in the dark.” — George Iles.
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown”
That would be awesome!
my quote is a simple one, but good. perfect for business decisions. i remind myself of it often.
“leap and the net will appear”.
I am dying to get my little paws on this!
“Oh, What a web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”… Shakespeare… Stuck in my mind since, oh, 11th grade!
“an unexamined life is not worth living”
“”i love you. this fight is over”” <3
“The government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” George Bernard Shaw.
Hooray for Uppercase!
“If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.” (Keith Richards)
What a GORGEOUS magazine!!
My all-time favorite quote: “Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
Henry Miller
I’ve always liked “Where ever you go, there you are.” :)
Please count me in. :)
my favorite quote:
“whether it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is
unfolding as it should.”
— max ehrmann
“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” ~ General George S. Patton
Thank you for the giveaway!
Fabulous magazine!
Favorite quote: “Time spent with cats is never wasted.”-Sigmund Freud
favorite quote of the moment:
“I don’t care where we go, or what we do, just take me with you!” Unknown
“when things get too heavy, just call me helium”
-bob dylan
I would LOVE this!
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” -Willy Wonka
my post was “when things get to heavy just call me helium” and it was by jimi hendrix! haha, my mind is somewhere else today..
oh, what a fun giveaway – i’ve been *dying* for an uppercase subscription!
hmm, favorite quote…probably the print i have up on my wall that says “today, i will be happier than a bird with a french fry.” completely random, but always makes me smile :)
The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
John Cage
Ooh, count me in!
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
Dorothy Parker
“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”–Bertolt Brecht
Would love an Uppercase subscription!
Oh, I would LOVE to have a subscription!!
“There is no set path. Just follow your heart” ~Unknown
“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
I’ve had so much fun reading everyone’s quotes! And here is my personal favorite:
“We can do no great things; only small things, with great love.”
Mother Teresa
(I really hope I win!) :)
“It is only when we enter into a moment and live it with attention that we become truly alive.”
–Dorothy Gilman
Thanks for spreading the UPpercase love! I love this quote idea!
what a fantastic giveaway, thanks for the chance :)
‘Just don’t start in on me again, bright and early in the morning, Zooey, please. I mean it, now’ ~ from Franny and Zoe, Salinger.
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” – Jack Kerouac
“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve…. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
I love this magazine! I hope I win!
oh I can’t resist! So cool.
And this, which never fails to make me laugh, from a very witty woman:
“Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.” – Margaret Halsey
“Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it!” Jules Renard
Love this quote:)
“If you don’t know, have a go.” – Sir Ken Robinson
(say that in a British accent. priceless!)
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. ~Henry David Thoreau
xx fingers crossed thanks for the chance~
xo Uppercase! & your blog
“Less is more.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
What a fantastic giveaway…Uppercase looks like such a drool-worthy magazine, dying to get my hands on a copy!
“…The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.” -Robert Fulghum
It’s been so inspiring, reading these quotes!
From Maira Kalman:
I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It’s not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It’s about having ears that stick out. About breaking yet another glass. It’s about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.
(And here’s an unofficial extra one, just in case someone needs to hear it:
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~John Barton)
A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom
Both of these quotes got me through round one (the hardest of four) with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Hurrah for Uppercase and their giveaway!
Thanks!
Geez, there’s a lot of good ones here! Here’s one of my favorites:
“To practice means to perform, in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.” –Martha Graham
“All your base are belong to us.”
Just kidding.
What a wonderful giveaway! Thank you and Uppercase for this opportunity!
There are so many great quotes but I’m going to choose this one today.
“To see far is one thing: going there is another” -Brancusi
I think the deadline was last night, but I got this quote from an old friend and have to include:
‘Today we bombed the moon. Who’d have thought.’ -Dave King
“Life is pain… Anyone who says different is selling something.” -The Princess Bride
“…accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the challenges of the 21st century.”
President Barack Obama
My favourite quote is:
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
— Allan Bloom
I haven’t heard of Uppercase before I read about it on your blog. It looks marvellous!
“the difference between try and triumph is just a little umph” marvin phillips
over the deadline, but still wanted to see if I could scrape in for a late entry and nice to share this great quote.