October 2009

Stanley Kubrick Quotations

-Ghost stories appeal to our craving for immortality. If you can be afraid of a ghost, then you have to believe that a ghost may exist. And if a ghost exists then oblivion might not be the end. Stanley Kubrick

Grant Frazier Quotations

-Life is full of obstacle illusions. Grant Frazier

Joseph Roux Quotations

-The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another. Joseph Roux

Edward Everett Hale Quotations

-Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. Edward Everett Hale

Robin Cook Quotations

-It’s better to send middle-aged men abroad to bore each other than to send young men abroad to kill each other. Robin Cook

Jerry Gillies Quotations

-Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Jerry Gillies

John Blake Quotations

-The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. John Blake

Alison Bonds Shapiro Quotations

-I have flying limitations, but I fly. I fly because we humans like to find ways to solve problems. It’s one of the great gifts of our nature. If we can’t fly, we invent airplanes. If we want to water our gardens, we invent hoses. It’s what we do. … We all live around our [...]

Muriel Rukeyser Quotations

-I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. Muriel Rukeyser

William Raspberry Quotations

-Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction – the things that constitute real success – is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. William Raspberry

Lisa Alther Quotations

-I happen to feel that the degree of a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. Lisa Alther

Immanuel Kant Quotations

-Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. Immanuel Kant

Rick Pitino Quotations

-When you build bridges you can keep crossing them. Rick Pitino

Charles Du Bos Quotations

-The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles Du Bos

James Carroll Quotations

-We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. James [...]

Jeffrey Rowland Quotations

-We’ve always been here and we’ll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn’t we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you’re able to [...]

Margo Kaufman Quotations

-I once complained to my father that I didn’t seem able to do things the same way other people did. Dad’s advice? ‘Margo, don’t be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.’ Margo Kaufman

John Russell Quotations

-Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. John Russell

Charles Mingus Quotations

-Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird–that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace–making the complicated simple, awesomely simple–that’s creativity. Charles Mingus

Joseph Conrad Quotations

-Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. -[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of [...]

John Dos Passos Quotations

-People don’t choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. John Dos Passos