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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
- A. Whitney Brown
- Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
- Dick Gregory (1932 - )
- For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.
- Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
- The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- The pleasure of love is in loving.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
- The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
- Okakura Kakuzo
- I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.
- Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
- I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
- Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
- The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
- Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
- Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04
- Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
- Rita Mae Brown
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