I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
~ Mother Teresa
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.
~ Linus Pauling
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose both looks like carelessness.
~ Oscar Wilde
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
~ Mae West
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.
~ Lemony Snicket
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
~ Dick Francis
What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
~ Marian Keyes
What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.
~ Reduced Shakespeare Company
Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.
~ Terry Pratchett
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
~ Bertrand Russell
I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.]
~ Philip Pullman
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
~ G.k. Chesterton
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
There is no God and we are his prophets.
~ Cormac Mccarthy
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
~ Albert Einstein
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.
~ Tara Bray Smith
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
~ Richard Lingard
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
~ Henry Thomas Buckle
Do you hate people?”“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
~ Charles Bukowski
Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.
~ Amy Sedaris
When a man plans, a woman laughs.
~ David Wong
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.
~ Charles Stross
Women should be obscene and not heard.
~ Paul Meredith Potter
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
~ Walter H. Cottingham
Excess makes the heart grow fonder...
~ John Balance
I came, I saw, I concurred...
~ Darren E. Laws
I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.
~ Demetri Martin
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.
~ Lauren Willig
I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
~ Adolf Hitler
You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.
~ Cassandra Clare
Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum.
~ Lisa Shearin
