I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. ~Bethania McKenstry
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Hoosier Farmer
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~Bob Lemon
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. ~Aldous Huxley
If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got. ~Author Unknown
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. ~Sigmund Freud
Loco citato: at the place quoted, from the same place; abbreviated loc. cit.
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~John LeCarre
I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom. ~Terri Guillemets
The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do. ~E.V. Lucas
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. ~Terri Guillemets
Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb
Paraprosdokian: figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first part. Example: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." ~Groucho Marx
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~Anne Bradstreet
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. ~Mark Twain
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. ~Aldous Huxley The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures. ~Earl Warren
It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. ~Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, "The Baby Shower
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. ~Michael Leboeuf
Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever. ~David Letterman
What we do flows from who we are. ~Paul Vitale
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you. ~Bruce Lee
