The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another.
(source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/June)
posted by TheBroadroom.Net,
Monday, June 11, 2007
at 11:00 AM (Pacific)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
It is easier to stay out than to get out.
A Southerner talks music.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter- it's the difference between lightning bug and the lightning.
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Be always careful not to take too much from an experience. A cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will never again sit upon a hot stove lid. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
(source: Wikiquote)
posted by TheBroadroom.Net,
at 5:07 PM (Pacific)
The wind blows over the lake and stirs the surface of the water. Thus, visible effects of the invisible are manifested.
posted by TheBroadroom.Net,
at 5:04 PM (Pacific)
Memory is a child walking along the seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.
posted by TheBroadroom.Net,
at 5:03 PM (Pacific)
I'm not one to sit here and say, "Oh, it's the Cinderella story." There are days when your foot is swollen and your glass slipper doesn't fit, but then you take a water pill and, the next day, it's fine.
A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
(quoted in Cosmopolitan magazine)
posted by TheBroadroom.Net,
at 4:55 PM (Pacific)
I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
I knew her [Doris Day] before she was a virgin.
So little time and so little to do.
I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 10:07 PM (Pacific)
Culture is one thing, and varnish another. (contributed by Charityjoy, from Wings of Silver by Jo Petty)
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 9:52 PM (Pacific)
I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.
--Lu t'ung (Trader Joe's tea)
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
--Lao Tzu (Celestial Seasonings tea)
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
--Plutarch (Celestial Seasonings tea)
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.
--Wu Men (Celestial Seasonings tea)
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 9:44 PM (Pacific)
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 9:43 PM (Pacific)
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 9:25 PM (Pacific)
I will never hire a woman clerk. A woman would have to leave work at 6 p.m. and cook dinner for her husband.
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 9:24 PM (Pacific)
[Hollywood is] a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 9:16 PM (Pacific)
To be the funniest has always been my aim. Not the most philosophical, not the most profound, but the funniest.
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 9:01 PM (Pacific)
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. If it's a woman, it's too often pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word (commenting on critics who call her brand of interviewing caustic).
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 8:24 PM (Pacific)
When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 8:22 PM (Pacific)
I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day; I've never had time for tobacco since.
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 7:57 PM (Pacific)
There's a desire today for more security and for a risk-free society. But that becomes a choiceless society, not a free society.
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 7:56 PM (Pacific)
