Misc Quotes
Regarding smoking in public: Suppose you were eating in a restaurant, and every two minutes the guy at the next table threw some anthrax germs in the air. Wouldn't you want to sit in a different section?Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave. - James A. LaFond-Lewis
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one. - George Bernard Shaw
The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. - Picasso
The hardest part about writing is getting the words out of the way.
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. - Richard Bach
'It's okay' is a cosmic truth. - Richard Bach
A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion....this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons. - Richard Bach, from "Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah"
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. - Richard Bach, from "The Bridge Across Forever"
You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. - Richard Bach, from "There's No Such Place As Far Away"
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end. - Richard Bach, from "There's No Such Place As Far Away"
We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE! - Richard Bach, from "The Bridge Across Forever"
Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long. - Richard Bach, from "Nothing By Chance"
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. - Richard Bach
The best thing about the present tense is that it lasts forever.
The hardest thing to do is one thing at a time.
People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it.
No one believes in his own death: one attends one's own funeral as a guest, not a corpse. - Ned Rorem
If you mail a letter to your mailman, will he get it before he's supposed to?
Pat Robertson has as much to do with Christianity as Lance Armstrong does with the physics of tampons. - A friend of mine on a message board
Invest in not being cheap.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
How can caretaker and caregiver refer to the same person?
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde
We're never so beautiful as when we don't realize it.
Some cartoons make so much sense, they're not funny anymore.
My ship came in, but I was at the airport.
Why does it always take longer to go somewhere than it does to come back?
Concerts are where they ruin all the songs you liked on the radio.
Good driving is about predicting bad driving.
The best part about books is that there are no commercials.
Life is just a poem that we haven't finished writing.
Daytime TV is incentive to get a job.
A story is rewritten every time it's read.
"The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say." - Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. - Elizabeth Drew
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. - Einstein
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. - Enrique Jardiel Poncela
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
When I'm working, and the television is on, I always tune in a program I like. If I'm going to ignore something, I want it to be something I enjoy.
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. - Rachel Carson
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, watch out.
"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are." - Milton Berle
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. - Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. - Carl R. Rogers
From Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice:
"The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart." Act 1, Scene 3, lines 99-102
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. - H. L. Mencken
I contend that we are both athiests. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. - Stephen F. Roberts
Behold the warranty ... the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
Truth is never pure and rarely simple. - Oscar Wilde
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. - W.D. Howells
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. - Henry Ford
No coward soul is mine. - Emily Bronte
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge rather than competence. - Eleanor Roosevelt
A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing. - Dolly Parton
The strong must protect the sweet. - Homer J. Simpson
Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for. - Theodore Epp
He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. - Japanese Proverb
I'd rather be poor and generous than rich and cheap.
Don't pass up the opportunity to make a kind gesture.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Theresa
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Emerson
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell. - Emerson
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama
Earth laughs in flowers. - Emerson
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. - Emerson
Friendship Quotes
Love Quotes
Hope Quotes
Joy Quotes
Mind Quotes
Survival Quotes
Rainbow & Color Quotes