Dreams are only thoughts you didn't have time to think about during the day. ~Author Unknown
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Cunning," Essays
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. ~Author Unknown
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted in Time
Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. ~Charles M. Crowe
I have a tickle in my brain. And it keeps making the corners of my mouth point toward the heavens. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. ~Henry Miller
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. ~The Music Man
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. ~Mark Twain
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb
I'm always top banana in the shock department. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
An artist's career always begins tomorrow. ~James McNeill Whistler
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. ~Ogden Nash
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. ~George Robert Gissing
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? ~Author Unknown
The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~Willa Cather
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. ~Patrick F. McManus, Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1979
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