Tag Archives: Quotes
No such thing
“No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.” ~ Henry Rollins
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. ~Sheryl Sandberg
Time Capsules
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. Alfred Hitchcock
Every moment is a new beginning. -Elie Wiesel
Write … write … pencil … paper. ~ Heinrich Heine
No man has the right to dictate …..
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. -Ansel Adams, American Photographer
Success Is Learned
Success isn’t something that just happens – success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared. -Sparky Anderson
Acceptance is the only way out of hell. ~Marsha M. Linehan
You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends. ~Joan Jett
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ~Anthony Burgess
So long as the universe had a beginning …..
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator? ~Stephen Hawking
Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly. ~Elizabeth Gilbert
Conquering Some Fear
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Food Security
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. ~Bill Gates
Food is as important as energy….
Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together. ~Louise Fresco
Making Excuses
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. -Benjamin Franklin
Order & Chaos
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. -Kerry Thomley
Bookish Homeless People
I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They’re bookish homeless people. -Lisa Yuskavage
Poor People And The Homeless
You can spend the money on new housing for the poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. -Jello Biafra
The present and the past …..
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn’t be in flashback. ~Alain Resnais
Past time is finite, future time is infinite. ~Edwin Powell Hubble
“If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.” ~T. S. Eliot
Walk Beside Me …..
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus
“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” ~Albert Einstein
Fill Your Life Up With Ideas
“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin”
Uninteresting Life
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. ~Mark Twain
Conquering Fear
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” ~Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays (1950) “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”
The world we see ……
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” ~William James
“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.” ~Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ~Alice Walker
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. ~Sam Levenson
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events. ~Albert Einstein
No one has ever died, from an over exposure to education. ~Robert M. Hensel
Robert M. Hensel, Spanish Poet-Writer
Clear Labeling For Genetically Modified Food
Europe believes that providing clear labeling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by vast majority of states in the U.S. -Zac Goldsmith
Rose Bushes
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. -Abraham Lincoln
Problems of the world…..
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. -Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist
Enjoy Life
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“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” ~Alice Walker
Beautiful People
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do notContinue reading “Beautiful People”
The morning cup of coffee …..
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
People spend to much time finding other people to blame …..
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. -J. Michael Straczynski, American Producer – 1954 –
Water And Life
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Life is …..
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary. ~Albert Einstein
Music is the medicine of the mind. ~John Logan
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one was has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
The two most important days in your life are the you were born and the day you find why. ~Mark Twain
One seventh of your life is spent on Monday. ~Aldous Huxley
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey, 1932 – 2012, Author
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” ~Mark Twain
“More than ninety percent of directing a picture is the right casting” ~Martin Scorsese
If you can’t tell a spoon from a ladle, then you’re fat! ~Demitri Martin
Demitri Martin, American Comedian
If you can’t do anything about it, laugh like hell. ~David Cook
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ~Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” ~Jim Morrison
“Readers recommend: songs about control” by Peter Kimpton, http://www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.
Movies are not novels ….
Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost failure. It can’t be done. ~Paul Auster
“It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.” ~Russell Means
Russell Means, B. November 10, 1939 – D. October 22, 2012
It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart. ~Al Pacino
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” ~Sheryl Sandberg
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. -John Fowles
Book Reading
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Bookstores
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“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” ~ Paul Valery
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. – Charles Spurgeon
“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John Ruskin
John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.732, John Ruskin
In art as in love, instinct is enough. ~ Anatole France
Anatole France – French Novelist
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” ~ Muhammad Ali
Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax
“everyone tells you what’s good for you. they don’t want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.” ~ Dan Millman
Try saying hello to someone who wouldn’t expect you to – today would be a good. ~ John Avery
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ~Albert Einstein
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press
Liberty ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.” ~ W. H. Auden
“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn’t painting be too?” ~ Edgar Degas
Learning never exhausts the mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. ~ Max Beerbohm
Max Beerbohm, English Essayist ~ 1872 – 1956
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” ~ Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~Simone Weil
“You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.” ~ Mooji
Mooji, Teacher ~ Born: January 29, 1954
Traveling Is Like Flirting
“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, Novelist
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. ~ Gertrude Stein
All the world Began With A Yes
“All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began.Continue reading “All the world Began With A Yes”
The Joy Of Reading Fiction
That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or hers imagination. ~ Alice Hoffman
“What worries you, masters you.” ~ John Locke
John Locke – Philosopher B: August 29, 1632 – D: October 28, 1704
In law, nothing is certain but the expense. ~Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler – English Author, 1835 – 1902
As soon as there is life there is danger. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ~ Simone Weil*
*French philosopher, 1909-1943
All Things
“All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.” ~ Black Elk, Medicine Man ~ B: Dec. 1, 1863 – D: Aug. 19, 1950
Cup Of Coffee
“Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, Al Pacino…Coffee doesn’t need a menu, it needs a cup.” ~ Denis Leary
I Write Differently ~ Franz Kafka
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. ~ Franz Kafka
Truth exists; only lies are invented. ~Georges Braque
William Blake Poem
“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” ~ William Blake ‘Auguries of Innocence’ (c. 1803)
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a cage, in search of a bird. ~ Franz Kafka
R.I.P Toni Morrison
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni Morrison, 88 y/o – Author, Nobel Laureate
