Quotes
What can I say, I love quotes! So I've compiled just a few of my favorites to share with anyone who feels like reading 'em. If you have some quotes you'd like to share that are not listed below please feel free to e-mail them to me. If I like them I'll put them on the site.
Rollo May
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or
poem.
Alice Maynell
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Greta Garbo
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left
alone.' There is all the difference.
Mary Stewart
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power -- they
fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
Alexander the Great
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is
such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?
H. G. Wells
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they
begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
Louise Nevelson
I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
Edward Westcott
The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one.
T. S. Eliot
And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in
the middle of my hair. . .
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
Elizabeth Gaskell
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise
people for their wisdom.
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I make no claim to have written any of the following quotes if there is a name accompanying it. If it says "unknown", well then obviously I don't know who said it, and it wasn't me. If it's in italics, then yes, those I do claim as mine.
Unknown
I didn't loose my mind,
It was mine to give away.
Riven
The mind is a thing to scorn,
But the brain is a thing to behold.
My mind perceives life as a double-edged sword.
And my brain? It concurs.
Ferdinand Foch
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Fulke Greville
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.
Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to
remain an artist once he grows up.
Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Peter Koestenbaum
Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.
Unknown
The moon's too bright
The chain's too tight
The beast won't go to sleep
I've been running through
These promises to you
That I made and could not keep.
Claude M. Bristol
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage
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