Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[randallFlaggfan1]

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

[Becks19]

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

[kingzeppelin]

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham

[blunthead]

I lean more heavily on intuition... I want to put a group of characters (perhaps a pair; perhaps even just one) in some sort of predicament and then watch them try to work themselves free. My job isn't to help them work their way free, or manipulate them to safety--those are jobs which require the noisy jackhammer of plot--but to watch what happens and then write it down. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[Becks19]

Cleaning your house while your children are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

- Phyllis Diller

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

- Victor Hugo


Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.
- Anonymous


A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."
- Charles B. Vaughan

[blunthead]

A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."

Wow.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Wow.

'Wow' is right. Wow, wow, wow.


Thank you, Becks!

[tenngolfer]

There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you
in time - It's easy.
"All You Need IS Love" , The Beatles

[blunthead]

When I called it quits, I stopped in the lobby to thank the concierge again for letting me use Mr. Kipling's beautiful desk. "I'm so glad you enjoyed it," he replied. He was wearing a misty, reminiscent little smile, as if he had known the writer himself. "Kipling died there, actually. Of a stroke. While he was writing."

I went back upstairs to catch a few hours' sleep, thinking of how often we are given information we really could have done without. - Stephen King (On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft)

[Becks19]

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success.
- Ann Landers


Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the stars.
- Frederick Langbridge