These are two quotes I like:
"Man is the only creature on earth that will shorten its life by working hard to acquire things that will further shorten its life." Unknown author
"Life is to important to take seriously"--Unknown author
These are two quotes I like:
"Man is the only creature on earth that will shorten its life by working hard to acquire things that will further shorten its life." Unknown author
"Life is to important to take seriously"--Unknown author
I recently read a transcript of the last speech Kurt Vonnegut wrote before his death. The speech is included in Armageddon in Retrospect, a collection of some of Vonnegut's posthumously published writings. My favorite quote from the speech is Vonnegut's advice to writers just starting out:
Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.
- A memo to crew of the Royal Yacht Britannia instructs them in how to nod to members of the Royal Family."Lower your head forward until your chin touches your chest momentarily and then raise your head to an upright position"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...te_of_the_day/
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson
My mother is a fish.
Originally Posted by carino
Scary but true.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary? Terry Jones, former Python
I think this one is quite good, funny at least.
My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931
“Read in order to live.”
- Gustave Flaubert
“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
- A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
- W. Fusselman
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”
- Voltaire
“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
- Maud Casey
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
- Logan Pearsall Smith
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
- Joseph Brodsky
“Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is READ.”
- Fortune
“If you can read this, thank a teacher.”
- Anonymous teacher
My mission in life is to make YOU smile
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"Wisdom Is Love" ~ The Bible
Once one knows enough valuable facts about History,
It allows One to Enjoy the time we have , easier
to contend with...
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The Truth does not Blush ~
I should think the two go together in many cases.“
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
- Joseph Brodsky
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
mark twain?
'I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes'- Vladimir Nabokov
...because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember as certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps 4 and 5 times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless...
i originally heard this from Brandon Lee in an interview but i think it`s from a book called The Sheltering Sky.
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what i used to be will pass away and then you`ll see that all i want to know is happiness for you and me...
That's quite thought-provoking.
Are you serious?
It should speak for its self
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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And the trully horrifying thing is its really really true!
My mission in life is to make YOU smile
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