Month: March 2009

Holbrook Jackson

“Be contented when you have got all you want.” Holbrook Jackson quotes

Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine

“Here’s a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can’t touch you if you’re out doing something interesting.” Kent Nichols …

Charles Baudelaire

“The world only goes round by misunderstanding.” Charles Baudelaire quotes

Emo Phillips

“I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.” Emo Phillips quotes

Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.” Dr. Martin Henry Fischer quotes

James Beard

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” James Beard quotes

Charles Dickens

“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.” Charles Dickens quotes

Kanye West

“In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you …

Madonna

“That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, …

Harold Ross

“If you can’t be funny, be interesting.” Harold Ross quotes

Brock Chisholm

“You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.” Brock Chisholm quotes

Clifton Fadiman

“For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.” Clifton Fadiman quotes

G. M. Trevelyan

“Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” G. M. Trevelyan quotes

Robert Benchley

“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.” Robert Benchley quotes

G. K. Chesterton

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” G. K. Chesterton quotes

Jason Fried

“You don’t need to outdo the competition. It’s expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity.” Jason Fried quotes

May Sarton

“There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves …

Franklin P. Jones

“Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his.” Franklin P. Jones quotes

R. Buckminster Fuller

“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if …

Chris Rapier

“I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn’t interest me.” Chris Rapier quotes

Charlie Chaplin

“In the end, everything is a gag.” Charlie Chaplin quotes

Kahlil Gibran

“Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.'” Kahlil Gibran quotes

Larry McMurtry

“Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.” Larry McMurtry quotes

Leo Rosten

“I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.” Leo Rosten quotes

Paul Tillich

“Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.” Paul Tillich quotes

Isabel Colegate

“It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with …

Jean Shinoda Bolen

“I think people don’t place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.” Jean …

Martin Luther King Jr.

“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” Martin Luther King Jr. quotes

Jenny Bicks

“The fact is, sometimes it’s hard to walk in a single woman’s shoes. That’s why we need really special ones now and then to make …

Matt Milby

“My life is like a zombie movie! I survive game after game after game, but the football just keeps coming! The only way to stop …

Tom Wilson

“These days an income is something you can’t live without–or within.”

Jay Leno

“Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”

Ruth Benedict

“The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and …

Dan Zadra

“Worry is a misuse of imagination.”

Cory Doctorow

“Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal.”

Chris Evert

“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you …

Dorothy Gilman

“If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel – nothing at all. The best things arrive …

John Clarke

“Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?”