Month: September 2009

Smith, Liz

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress. Smith, Liz quotes

Jerry Bowyer

“Have you ever heard people say ‘don’t sweat the details’? Well, they’re wrong: sweat the details. They have a name for people who sweat the …

Lyster

“For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find …

Linus Torvalds on Technology

Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. – Linus Torvalds Quotes, Famous Quotes, Linus Torvalds, Technology

Bruce Barton on Change

When you are through changing, you are through. – Bruce Barton Quotes, Famous Quotes, Bruce Barton, Change

Edwin Louis Cole

“Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.” Edwin Louis Cole quotes

Yoko Ono

“Every drop in the ocean counts.” Yoko Ono quotes

Franklin, Aretha

I’ve always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. Franklin, Aretha quotes

Babyface

Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I figured I could …

Jackson, Jesse

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression. Jackson, Jesse quotes

Jacobsen, Henry

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. Jacobsen, Henry quotes

Lingerman, Hal A.

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your …

Paul Boese

“Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.” Paul Boese quotes

Henry Van Dyke on Death

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. – Henry Van Dyke Quotes, Famous Quotes, Henry Van Dyke, Death

Ambition

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. – Joubert, Joseph

Bores and Boredom

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. – Hoffer, Eric

Women

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same. – Murdoch, …

Habit

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. – Franklin, Benjamin

Nicolaus Copernicus

“Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.” Nicolaus Copernicus quotes

Stein, Ben

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. Stein, Ben quotes

Aristophanes

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can’t live with them, or without them. Aristophanes quotes

Layton, Irving

If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets. Layton, Irving quotes

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead — and find no one there. Roosevelt, Franklin D. …

Rohn, Jim

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. Rohn, Jim quotes

Hannibal

“We will either find a way, or make one!” Hannibal quotes