Random Sample of Quotes |
 | The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 2 likes |
 | As long as one suffers one lives. |
 | The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | This is the best of all possible worlds. — Gottfried Leibnitz, 1646-1716, German philosopher & mathematician 2 likes |
 | Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd. |
 | Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 2 likes |
 | Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used, till they are seasoned. |
 | If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 4 likes |
 | Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light. |
 | It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 23 likes |
 | He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 4 likes |
 | History is only about the privileged. |
 | I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 4 likes |
 | Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. |
 | I have been bent and broken, but –I hope– into a better shape. |
 | What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No.5, of course. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 8 likes |
 | When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 5 likes |
 | I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 8 likes |
 | Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what? — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
| Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. |
 | The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 3 likes |
 | If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know. |
 | The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 5 likes |
 | What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
 | Children always want to look behind mirrors. |
 | He begins to die, that quits his desires. |
 | Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. |
 | A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. — Doug Larson, 1926-2017, American columnist 4 likes |
 | Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 4 likes |
 | I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. — Alexander the Great, 356-323 BC, King of Macedon 11 likes |
| The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | The graveyards are full of indispensable men. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 7 likes |
 | Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances...Strong men believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 2 likes |
 | Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 3 likes |
 | Music is the only religion that delivers the goods. |
| My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. |
| Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. |
