February 2008

Max Beerbohm Quotations

Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly. Max Beerbohm

Sabrina Dhawan Quotations

My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able to fall. I mean, if you keep sitting on your ass, nothing’s gonna happen. “Only brave warriors fall off their horses in battle. How can kneeling cowards know what a fall is?” Listen sweetheart, the main thing is, you have to fight [...]

Maya Angelou Quotations

-If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can transform a million realities. -The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. -I know why the caged bird sings. Maya Angelou

Paul Theroux Quotations

Only a fool blames his bad vacation on the rain. Paul Theroux

Bill Clinton Quotes

Every time Nelson Mandela walks into a room we all feel a little bigger, we all want to stand up, we all want to cheer, because we would like to be him on our best day. Bill Clinton

Mary Caroline Davies Quotations

May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting. Mary Caroline Davies

Tina Turner Quotations

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered. Tina Turner

Johann von Neumann Quotations

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. Johann von Neumann

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotations

-The purpose of religion is not to satisfy the needs we feel but to create in us the need of serving ends of which we otherwise remain oblivious. -Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Abraham Joshua Heschel