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.
Erik Satie
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
Margot Fonteyn
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for
the first time.
John Stuart Mill
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have
only interests.
Gene Fowler
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops
Ø of blood form on your forehead."
Adrienne Rich
Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of
entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more
than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
Erik Satie
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the
proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
R.L. Stevenson
"The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean."
Cyril Connolly
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public and have no self."
Gertrude Stein
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an afterthought."
Dead Poet's Society
"But only in their dreams can men be truly free. Has always been thus, and always thus will be"
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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.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Irv Kupcinet
"If at first you dont succeed, deny you were even trying"
Laurens Van Der Post
"Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child"
Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"
Diane Ackerman
"Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world; shapes that bring the world into focus, corral ideas, hone thoughts. They paint watercolors of perception"
Jean de la Fontaine
"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it"
Dr. Seuss
Adults are obsolete children.
Walter Winchell
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking
you in the seat of the pants.
Scott Adams
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
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