Sunday, March 26, 2006

More interesting quotes

1.If you have a skeleton in your closet,take it out and dance with it.-Carolyn MacKenzie
2.Drink noting without seeing;sign nothing without reading it.-Spanish proverb
3.It's a reactive thing,like a Geiger counter,you click whenever you come close to whatever you were built to do.-Stephen king
4.No passion in this world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.-H.G.Wells

Interesting quotes

1.Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.-George Herbert.
2.Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.-English proverb

A few interesting quotes

1.Drink nothing without seeing;sign nothing without reading it.-Spanish proverb
2.It's a reactive thing,like a Geiger counter,you click whenever you come close to whatever you were built to do.-Stephen King.
3.Without experience we will not gain full knowledge.-Chinese proverb
4.Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.-English proverb
5.If you have a skeleton in your closet,taker it out and dance with it.-Carolyn Mackenzie.
6.Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.-George Herbert

Some interesting quotes

1.Drink nothing without seeing;sign nothing without reading it.-Spanish proverb
2.It's a reactive thing,like a Geiger counter,you click whenever you come close to whatever you were built to do.-Stephen King.
3.Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.-English proverb
4.Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.-George Herbert
5.If you have a skeleton in your closet,take it out and dance with it.-Carolyn Mackenzie
6.No passion in this world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.-H.G.Wells

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Some other great quotes or proverbs

1.After dark all cats are leopards.-Native American proverb(Zuni).
2.Patience is wisdom in waiting.-Chinese proverb
3.Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.-Virgil A.Kraft
4.In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to what he's been thinking about all winter.-Vina Delmar
5.The glass is neither half empty nor half full.It is twice as large as it needs to be.
6.The modern world lacks not only hiding places,but certainties.-Salman Rushdie.
7.The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.-Joan Collins
8.I often don't know what I think until I notice what I'm humming.-Mary Campbell.
9.What I tell you three times is true.-Lewis Carroll.
10.Easy reading is damned hard writing.-Nathaniel Hawthorne
11.Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge,and dares to forgive an injury.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Some other great quotes or proverbs

1.After dark all cats are leopards.-Native American proverb(Zuni).
2.Patience is wisdom in waiting.-Chinese proverb
3.Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.-Virgil A.Kraft
4.In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to what he's been thinking about all winter.-Vina Delmar
5.The glass is neither half empty nor half full.It is twice as large as it needs to be.
6.The modern world lacks not only hiding places,but certainties.-Salman Rushdie.
7.The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.-Joan Collins
8.I often don't know what I think until I notice what I'm humming.-Mary Campbell.
9.What I tell you three times is true.-Lewis Carroll.
10.Easy reading is damned hard writing.-Nathaniel Hawthorne
11.Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge,and dares to forgive an injury.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Sunday, March 19, 2006

A few quotes and thoughts I uncovered that are worth adding

1.Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.-Chinese proverb
2.You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.-Navajo proverb
3.To teach is to learn.-Chinese proverb
4.Liberty is not a means to a higher political end.It is itself the highest political end.-Lord Acton.
5.If you wait for inspiration,you're not a writer,but a waiter.-Anonymous.
6.Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.-Chinese proverb.
7.The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.-Dylan Thomas

Monday, March 13, 2006

Some thoughts that are interesting

1.Good writers are those who keep the language efficient.That is to say,keep it accurate,keep it clear.-Ezra Pound.
2.You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal.-Russian proverb
3.If a man can remember what he worried about last week,he has a very good memory.-Anonymous.
4.The best part of writing is stopping.-Colin Walter.
5.Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.-Swedish proverb

Monday, March 06, 2006

Two smart quotes

1.The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference;the doubter fights only with himself.-Graham Greene.
2.Government's great contribution to human wisdom----is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.-H.L.Mencken.

A few more quotes or proverbs that give food for thought

1.The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
2.The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.-Polish proverb
3.Allow me to furnish the interior of my head as I please,and I shall put up with a hat like everybody else's.-Henri Bergson
4.Wisdom is attained by learning when to hold one's tongue.-Chinese proverb
5.One who minds the feelings of others is no fool.-Chinese proverb
6.One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.-George Santayana
7.Love is moral even without legal marriage,but marriage is immoral without love.-Ellen Key(1849-1926)
8.Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still-Spanish proverb

Saturday, March 04, 2006

Some other good quotes

1.The problem is when you are not writing you don't know if you're lying fallow or if you will never write again.-Norman Mailer
2.If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods,the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.-Thomas Friedman
3.Kind words can unlock an iron door.-Kurdish proverb
4.I'm proud to be paying taxes in the US.The only thing is I could be just as proud for half of the money.-Arthur Godfrey.
5.Call on God,but row away from the rocks.-Hunter S.Thompson
6.The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.-Hunter S.Thompson
7.Every mile is two in winter.-George Herbert.
8.The philosopher has never killed any priests,whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.-Denis Diderot.
9You can't be suspicious of a tree,or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.-Hal Borland.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Four quotes that make me think

1.Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.-Elizabeth Goudge.
2.I think of writing anything at all as a kind of high wire act.The minute you're putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.-Joan Didion.
3.I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.-Thomas Jefferson
4.Variety is not just the spice of life,it's the essence of great art.-Imal Desberats