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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
- A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
- Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
- Buzz Aldrin (1930 - )
- If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
- Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
- You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
- The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers (1976)
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
- Joan Klempner
- See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo
- I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'The Spectator'
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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