Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
- Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
- Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
- Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
- If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all.
- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
- Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
- Robert Anthony
- Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
- Norm Papernick
- In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
- Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.
- Jessica Alba
- Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 07-03-05
|