Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Sidney Goff Quotes

"A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water."- Sidney Goff

J.W. Eagan Quotes

"Never judge a book by its movie."- J.W. Eagan

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

s-CRY-ed Quotes

"Even if I fall, I'm gonna fall forward."-Kazuma

"Just because he's near, doesn't mean he's close, you know. It's not that easy."-Cherise

"What was that? It feels like every pore on my body just opened up! I've never felt anything like it! Something's not right. If I had half a brain, I'd get the hell out of here right now! Oh well."-Kazuma

"I was... dreaming. Inside my dream, I became someone else. I became a person whose fighting could change the inevitable."-Kanami

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Mark Twain Quotes

"Go to heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."- Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."- Mark Twain

"Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it."- Mark Twain

Friday, January 29, 2010

James Michener Quotes

"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."-James Michener

"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."-James Michener

"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."-James Michener

"America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them."-James Michener

"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."-James Michener

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."-James Michener

"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."-James Michener

"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."-James Michener

"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."-James Michener

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

"Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."-Hunter S. Thompson

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."-Hunter S. Thompson

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

"A word to the wise is infuriating."

Bob Hope Quotes

"Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle."-Bob Hope

Robert Frost Quotes

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."-Robert Frost

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."-Robert Frost

"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."-Robert Frost

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."-Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."-Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."-Robert Frost

"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."-Robert Frost

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."-Robert Frost

"Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in."-Robert Frost

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."-Robert Frost

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."-Robert Frost

"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."-Robert Frost

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."-Robert Frost

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."-Robert Frost

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."-Robert Frost

"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."-Robert Frost

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."-Robert Frost

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."-Robert Frost

"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."-Robert Frost

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."-Robert Frost

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."-Robert Frost

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."-Robert Frost

"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."-Robert Frost

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."-Robert Frost

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."-Robert Frost

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."-Robert Frost