Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[randallFlaggfan1]

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”

- Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

[Haunted]

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four
essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
~Alex Levine

[Haunted]

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts
when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.
Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure.
Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook,
which eventually leads to success.
~ Brian Adams

[blunthead]

Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas A. Edison

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
- Thornton Wilder

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Rebecca West

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
- Bodhidharma

The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
- George Ade

[sonofcana]

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Sir Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Sir Winston Churchill

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Sir Winston Churchill

[J.T. Adams]

'Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.'

- Jim Carrey

[Garriga]

"You don't have anything to lose when you take your first whack at the pinata, but to take a second one (and a third ... and a fourth ... and a thirty-forth) is to risk failure, depression..." - Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

[Samantha_]

"You don't have anything to lose when you take your first whack at the pinata, but to take a second one (and a third ... and a fourth ... and a thirty-forth) is to risk failure, depression..." - Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Yes, but you should do it anyway. Right!

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Some women have a weakness for shoes...I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books."

-Oprah Winfrey

[blunthead]

Eaten bread is forgotten.
- Thomas Fuller

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- George Eliot

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Tom Robbins

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
- Jean Cocteau

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
- Benjamin Disraeli

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
- Woody Allen