Lynda Barry
“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”
Year: 2008
Eugene McCarthy
“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”
Howard Thurman
“Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive… then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have …
Jimmy Buffett
“If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.”
Jerome K. Jerome
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
Andy Gibb
“Girls are always running through my mind. They don’t dare walk.”
e e cummings
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Quentin Crisp
“The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.”
Thomas Neill
“Of those who say nothing, few are silent.”
Margaret Bonnano
“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.”
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
“There’s something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there’s a more powerful energy source, I don’t know about it.”
Linda Berdoll
“Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.”
Stella Terrill Mann
“Whatever God’s dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.”
Bonnie Friedman
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
Norman Mailer
“There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the …
Thomas Hardy
“A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.”
Richard Greenberg
“I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There’s …
Robert Browning
“What’s the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth – Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?”
Rebecca Johnson
“Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.”
Evelyn Underhill
“After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer …
Adrienne E. Gusoff
“Any woman who thinks the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.”
Charlize Theron
“There’s only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn’t give you a chance there is nothing you can do.”
Kathleen Norris
“Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
“Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one’s chosen form.”
Judy Garland
“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
Willis Player
“A liberal is a person whose interests aren’t at stake at the moment.”
Henny Youngman
“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
Confucius
“When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”
Dorothy Parker
“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
Michel de Montaigne
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Bethania McKenstry
“I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.”
Harold Rosenberg
“No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.”
Henry J. Tillman
“Oregano is the spice of life.”
Honore de Balzac
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.”
Brendan Behan
“When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot …
Paul Valery
“What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.”
Ronnie Shakes
“I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?”