April 2007

Tommy Steele Quotations

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you. Tommy Steele

Daphne du Maurier Quotations

-Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. Daphne du Maurier

Pauline Kael

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art, it is the part the schools cannot recognize. Pauline Kael

Julius Erving

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them. Julius Erving

Alan Plater

If an idea is important enough it is worth laughing at. Alan Plater

W.H. Thompson Quotations

-We are none of us infallible–not even the youngest of us. W.H. Thompson

William Somerset Maugham Quotations

-She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. -Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. -It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. -Commonsense and good nature will do [...]

Jacques Barzun

-An artist has every right – one may even say a duty – to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. -Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is not art. -Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. -Idealism springs from [...]

Walter Lippman Quotations

-A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. -A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. -Ages when custom is unsettled [...]

Thomas Hardy Quotations

A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to. Thomas Hardy

Charles Caleb Colton Quotations

-If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. -We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. -There is a paradox in pride: It makes some men ridiculous, [...]

L.L. Henderson

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn’t. L.L. Henderson

Terry Waite

I remember saying three things to myself after I was taken hostage which somehow stood me in good stead. No regrets – you haven’t done everything correctly, you’re bound to have made mistakes, but stick by what you’ve done. No self pity – don’t begin to feel sorry for yourself, there are loads of people [...]

Satchel Paige

-Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter. -Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common. -Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. -Avoid running at all times. -Don’t look back. Something might be gaining [...]

Arthur Danto Quotations

When I transfer my knowledge I teach, when I transfer my beliefs I indoctrinate. Arthur Danto

Burt Lancaster

Once the public decides what you are, you might as well give up trying to be anything else. Burt Lancaster

Marilyn Monroe Quotations

-Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. Marilyn Monroe

Freeman Dyson

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding. Freeman Dyson

Aart Van Der Leeuw Quotations

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced. Aart Van Der Leeuw

Edmund Spenser

We feel and know that we are eternal. Edmund Spenser

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotations

-All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. -The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities. -Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education [...]

Archibald MacLeish Quotations

-The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. -To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on [...]

James Joyce Quotations

-A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce

Niels Bohr

-Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true. -The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. [...]

Giordano Bruno

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. Giordano Bruno

Claude Bernard Quotations

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard

Heinz Pagels

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy. Heinz Pagels

Max Planck

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory

Russell Targ Quotations

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness. Russell Targ

J. B. S. Haldane

Reality is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose. J. B. S. Haldane

Ramtha

-If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ‘I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.’ If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane. -You cannot see anything that you [...]

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus Quotations

-When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. -That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as [...]

William Faulkner Quotations

-I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. -Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than [...]

Copernicus

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Copernicus

Galileo Galilei Quotations

-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. Galileo Galilei

Jean-Paul Sartre

-We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. -Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. Jean-Paul Sartre

Chief Seattle Quottions

-Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle

St. Francis of Assisi

What we are looking for is what is looking. St. Francis of Assisi

Walter Bagehot Quotations

-The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. Walter Bagehot

Henri Poincare

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. Henri Poincare

Kurt Vonnegut Quotations

-Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. -What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on? -I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool. [...]

Penelope Fitzgerald

It’s very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren’t by any means always welcome, but at least one can’t be mistaken as to who or what they are. [...]

Jean Giraudoux Quotations

-Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux

John Cage Quotations

-The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. -I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. John Cage

Edmund Waller

The Muse’s friend, tea does our fancy aid, / Repress those vapours which the head invade, / And keep the palace of the soul serene, / Fit on her birthday to salute the Queen. Edmund Waller (1606-87)

Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart Quotations

-The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath. Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

John Maynard Keynes Quotations

-The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. -The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. -I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. John Maynard Keynes

AA Milne Quotations

-One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. -The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. AA Milne

Lord Acton Quotations

-The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. -Learn as much by writing as by reading. Lord Acton

Epicurus

-Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. -Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. -If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; but if you live according [...]

John Millington Synge

‘A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded,’ he said, ‘for he will be going out on a day he shouldn’t. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and then.’ John Millington Synge, in Aran Islands

Eugene McCarthy Quotations

-It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important. Eugene McCarthy

Samuel McChord Crothers Quotations

-Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. -A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every [...]

Shana Alexander Quotations

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. Shana Alexander

John of Ruysbroeck

To comprehend and to understand God above all similitudes, as He is in Himself, is to be God with God, without intermediary, and without any otherness that can become a hindrance or an intermediary. Whosoever wishes to understand this must have died to himself, and must live in God, and must turn his gaze to [...]

Christopher Morley Quotations

-Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. -There is only one success – to be able to spend your [...]

John Cooper Clarke Quotations

With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it: style slaps you in the face. John Cooper Clarke

Louis Pasteur Quotations

Did you observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favours only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur

Thornton Wilder Quotations

-I’ve never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for — whether it’s a field or a home, or a country. -The planting of trees is the least [...]

Ernest Hemingway Quotations

-F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The rich are different from you and me.” Ernest Hemingway: “Yes, they have more money.” -Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened. -Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack [...]

F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotations

F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The rich are different from you and me.” Ernest Hemingway: “Yes, they have more money.”