Henry Fonda in ''The Rounders''.
''Needs a hard man to eat boiled Owl.''
I wonder what it means.
Henry Fonda in ''The Rounders''.
''Needs a hard man to eat boiled Owl.''
I wonder what it means.
''If only God were alive to see this.'' Homer Simpson.
''I colllect sea-shells.
I keep 'em on beaches all around the World.''
"God gave me two feet. That's why I take one step at a time"--Glen Campbell in "True Grit"
"Curiosity salted the snail"--Spongebob
"there is no there there" - Gertrude Stein
"You can say anything you want, yes sir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend. ... I bow to them. ... I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite them, I melt them. ... I love words so much. Everything exists in words."
--from Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's Memoirs.
I like thatOriginally Posted by Logos
Ill have to add that one to my door art.
My mission in life is to make YOU smile
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"The time has come," the Walrus said,"To talk of many things:
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"To study music we must learn the rules.
To create music, we must forget them."
--Nadia Boulanger
"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.”
- Dom Helder Camara
I especially like this quote because of its simplicity and deep meaning (through analysis). I imagine "they" to be those in power or those with money (the capitalists). "They" do not mind short term and immediate donation, because it does not affect them and by congratulating him they imagine themselves as humanitarians. "They" do, however, mind his suggestion of social reformation because of its results in their power and material possessions. "They" brand him as the unmentionable "commie" and make the listener assume the negative connotations (Soviet, evil, terrorist, whatever) of "commie" while ignoring the positive.
You have sinned like a man, do not persevere on it like a devil-- Christopher Marlowe
This sentence changed my life; I've never read sth more touching.
"Crying is the refuge of plain women not the pretty ones"
Bernard Shaw(I guess in his play CANDIDA)
Bush senior commented on Clinton-Lewinsky affair:
"God has given man both brain and penis but not enough blood to run both of them at the same time"
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."" ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I love these quotes, maybe above all others. My initial training was in journalism, and the ability to ask pertinent, pointed, interesting questions is the foundation to any story one would then write; now I'm a teacher, and I think that all learning stems from the questions we ask ourselves. And besides, I am always curious.
As to the second one, to survive, we must face the unthinkable sometimes...and well, you get the rest.
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"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."--from John Donne's Meditation XVII (which inspired Ernest Hemingway's novel title For Whom The Bell Tolls)
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Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.--from Donne's The Sun Rising
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Not my favorites but I like these:
God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas. - Pablo Picasso
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. - Antoine de Saint Exupery
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating. - O. Henry
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