Malcolm Forbes
“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.” Malcolm Forbes quotes
Month: April 2009
James Thurber
“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.” James Thurber quotes
H. G. Wells
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” H. G. Wells quotes
Caroline K. Simon
“Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.” Caroline K. Simon quotes
Gwendolyn Brooks
“To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.” Gwendolyn Brooks quotes
Malayan Proverb
“Don’t think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.” Malayan Proverb quotes
Vincent Van Gogh
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” Vincent Van Gogh quotes
Robert H. Schuller
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” Robert H. Schuller quotes
Thornton Wilder
“Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.” Thornton Wilder quotes
Dame Rose Macaulay
“It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.” Dame Rose Macaulay quotes
Charles Kettering
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” Charles Kettering quotes
Francis Ford Coppola
“I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.” Francis Ford Coppola quotes
Lao Tzu
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” Lao Tzu quotes
Jean Anouilh
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
Kathie Lee Gifford
“Love in the real world means saying you’re sorry 10 times a day.”
Jean Racine
“The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.”
Michelangelo
“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
Jodie Foster
“I think an artist’s responsibility is more complex than people realize.”
Ansel Adams
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Nothing leads to good that is not natural.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
“You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.”
Emo Philips
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.”
Milton Friedman
“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”
Doris Lessing
“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.”
Demosthenes
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
Anonymous
“Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.” Anonymous quotes
Joe Theismann
“Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.” Joe Theismann quotes
Gallagher
“Don’t you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked ‘Brightness,’ but it doesn’t work.” Gallagher quotes
Henry Stimson
“The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.” Henry Stimson quotes
Rita Mae Brown
“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.” Rita Mae Brown quotes
Charles Bukowski
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t …
Heather Armstrong
“Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it’s so hurtful to think about writing.” Heather Armstrong quotes
Bob Thaves
“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.” Bob Thaves quotes
Alexis Carrel
“To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to …
John Dryden
“None are so busy as the fool and knave.” John Dryden quotes
Alice Thomas Ellis
“There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.” Alice Thomas Ellis quotes
Alan Moore
“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.” …