Tag: Quotes
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. ~ Robert Frost
Henry Rollins Quote
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
~Henry Rollins
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. ~ Jules Renard
It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly. ~ C. J. Cherryh
Carolyn Janice Cherry Pen Name: C. J. Cherryr, American writer of speculative fiction.
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; ~ Sitting Bull
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. ~ Russell Baker
Russell Baker – American journalist 1925-2019
Peter Ustinov Quote
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.
~ Peter Ustinov (1921 – 2004)
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. ~ Mark Twain
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy. ~ Henry David Thoreau
I trust everyone. I just don’t trust the devil inside them. ~ Troy Kennedy-Martin
Troy Kennedy-Martin, Scottish born film and television screenwriter (1932 – 2009)
All colors will agree in the dark. ~ Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and statesman (1561-1626)
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. ~ Dan Rather
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. ~ Ken Olsen
Source: Time magazine (1977)
Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have. ~ Doris Mortman
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. ~ Karl Popper
Karl Popper – Austrian-British philosopher and professor 1902-1994
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~ Sir Richard Steele
Alexander Graham Bell Quote
“The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.”
~ Alexander Graham Bell, B. March 3, 1847 – D. August 2, 1922
“In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.” ~ George Harrison
“Love one another (His last words)” ~ George Harrison
George Harrison – B. February 25, 1943 – D. November 29, 2001 (58 y/o)
“It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.” ~ Robert Fulghum
“If any of you cry at my funeral I’ll never speak to you again.” ~ Stan Laurel
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
“To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.” ~ John Keats
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. ~ William Shakespeare
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. ~ Leo J. Burke
“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.” ~ Baruch Spinoza
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. ~ Albert Camus
“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.” ~ Yoko Ono
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. ~ Neal Peart
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Gold is worse poison to a man’s soul, doing more murders in this loathsome world, than any mortal drug. ~ William Shakespeare
Life and death matters, yes. ~ Raymond Carver
“Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.”
~ Raymond Carver, Writer – (1938-1988)
Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. ~ Henry James
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey
A world without music is just a world full of noises that don’t make sense. ~ Isaac Saylor
Man is the cruelest animal. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people.” – Lucille S. Harper
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. ~ Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem, leading Yiddish author and playwright. 1859-1916
“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ~ Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher – B. April 22, 1724 – D. February 12, 1804
Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled. ~ Noam Chomsky
Hell is empty. All the devils are here. ~ William Shakespeare
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? ~ George Carlin
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” ~ Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes, Philosopher – B. March 31, 1596 – D. February 11, 1650
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face. ~ Leonard Cohen
“I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.” ~ Gary Cole
Gary Cole, Television actor (B. September 20, 1956)
Learning never exhausts the mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Live out of your imagination, not your history. ~ Stephen Covey
A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to. ~ Thomas Hardy
Perfection has grave defect. It is apt to be dull. ~ William Somerset Maugham
In love, one and one are one. Jean-Paul Sartre
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. ~ Edwin Schlossberg
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. ~ Jim Morrison
Novels are fictions ~ Paul Auster
“Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.”
~ Paul Auster, Author (B. February 3, 1947)
“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.” ~ Clarice Lispector
Writer, B. December 10, 1920 – D. December 9, 1977
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. ~ Tim Ferriss
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. ~ Samuel Johnson
Source note: Johnsonian Misellanies (1966 edition)
It’s so funny how social media was just this fun thing, and now it’s this monster that consumes so many millennial lives. ~ Cazzie David
Albert Einstein Quote
Many of the things you can count, don’t count.
Many of the things you can’t count, really count.
~ Albert Einstein
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ~ James Madison
To the intelligent man or woman ~ Edward Abbey
“To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.”
~ Edward Abbey (B. January 29, 1927 – D. March 14, 1989)
Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. ~ Thomas Berger
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. ~ Thornton Wilder
Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~ Tom Lehrer
The pen is the tongue of the mind. ~ Horace
He who angers you conquers you. ~ Elizabeth Kenny
Television has raised writing to a new low. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer. ~ Rita Mae Brown
The body says what words cannot. ~ Martha Graham
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ~ Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson (1906 – 2005)
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. ~ Anonymous
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” ~ Rose Kennedy
B. July 22, 1890 – D. January 22, 1995
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. ~ Farmers’ Almanac
Farmers’ Almanac, 1978
Life is consciousness. ~ Emmet Fox
“There is no beauty without some strangeness” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, B. January 19, 1809 – D. October 7, 1849
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~ Henry Cate VII
People are afraid of themselves ~ Jim Morrison
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.”
~ Jim Morrison
The function of law ~ Robert Anton Wilson
“The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.”
~ Robert Anton Wilson, Author (B. January 18, 1932 – D. January 11, 2007
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. ~ Rose Kennedy
A person’s a person, no matter how small. ~ Dr. Seuss
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~ Anais Nin
Anais Nin, Born: February 21, 1903 – Died: January 14, 1977
We don’t like their sound…..
We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
– Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
“Fear is incomplete knowledge.” ~ Agatha Christie
Born: September 15, 1890 – Died: January 12, 1976
“Books are a habit-forming drug.” ~ Agatha Christie
Unclose your mind. ~ Haruki Murakami
“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.”
~ Haruki Murakami
Dancing is silent poetry. ~ Simonides (556-468bc)
I dream, therefore I become. ~ Cheryl Renee Grossman
It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
~ Rose Kennedy
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