Sir Arthur Eddington
“We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.”
Category: Quotes of the day
Eric Wald
“Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when …
Willa Cather
“She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from …
Constantine Peter Cavafy
“You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.”
Craig Newmark
“I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.”
Edmund Wilson
“There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.”
Evelyn Waugh
“It is a curious thing… that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.”
Solomon Short
“Any great truth can — and eventually will — be expressed as a cliche — a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute …
Margaret Mead
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Nancy Spain
“There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.”
Lynda Barry
“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.”
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.”