Second Illustrated Quote Chart from I Love Chart-ist Reader Submission:

“Murder is like potato chips: you can’t stop with just one.” — Stephen King

Thanks to ennuiandapathy for this one. I had never previously realised the overlap between murderers and Pringles enthusiasts. #learningnewthings

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This is my final post of the day! Signing off as your local Chartist-in-Residence.

An immense thanks to Jason who runs this blog for the opportunity to take over for the day. More thanks to everyone who commented, reblogged, and liked the days charts. And an extra special thanks to all the quote-enthusiasts who submitted their favourites – there were so many good ones, I’ll likely be using a few for illustrated charts in the future!

Feel free to stop by mappleton.co whenever you feel the need for more quotation illustration in your life, I serve it up regularly.

Mappleton out!

First Illustrated Quote Chart from I Love Chart-ist Reader Submission!

“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.” – Oscar Wilde

Thanks to likethatofarainbow for the quote! Oscar Wilde was definitely a character, and if anyone were to be given the opportunity to hang out with him (in the afterlife… obviously) I’m sure they would appreciate this guide to rely upon.

Carl Sagan passes on wisdom about the importance of understanding the origins of cosmic bodies before you begin baking for the afternoon.

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson knows that “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

While we should learn from history and care for the future, what happens here and now should always take precedence.

David Lynch inspired this chart-like reflection on the ebbing and flowing of imagination through the years, especially in relation to the “rules” of life.

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”

George Bernard Shaw warned us to “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

Shaw is a fabulous person to quote, I rely on his words liberally and often. Also, full disclosure that I’m an anthropology major by trade and got a substantial kick out of fitting the ‘armchair anthropologists’ joke into this one (a term that refers to academics who don’t venture too far outside the library and hide from actual fieldwork – a crime anthropologists were especially guilty of in the early years of the discipline). 

Ernest Becker points to the undeniable relationship between madness and wildly creative thinking. 

“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”

If in doubt, always head for left field…

Raymond Chandler reminds us to stay humble, as our wits are about as eternal as the food turning soft in our fridge (I’m looking at you cabbage…).

“Cleverness, like perhaps strawberries, is a perishable commodity.”

I find quote-hoarding to be a fabulous method of borrowing the knowledgable thoughts of others when my own fails.