"One of the good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
~~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]
"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room."
~~ Blaise Pascal [1623-62]
"Talent hits a target [that] no one can hit; genius hits a target [that] no one can see."
~~ Arthur Schopenhauer [1788-1860]
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
~~ Robin Williams
"The best diet is having to pay for your own groceries."
~~ Aaron Karo
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."
~~ Henry J. Kaiser [1882-1967]
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
~~ Jean Kerr [1922-2003]
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."
~~ Robert A. Heinlein [1907-88]
"God may have had fun at creation, but he really didn't think things through."
~~ filmmaker Lars von Trier
"It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism."
~~ activist Malcolm X [1925-65]
"Equality with whites will not solve the problems of either whites or Negroes if it means equality in a world society stricken by poverty and in a universe doomed to extinction by war."
~~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68], from "Where Do We Go From Here", 1968
"In Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture. If you didn't have one in production within the last three months, you're forgotten, no matter what you have achieved [before] this."
~~ Erich von Stroheim [1885-1957]
"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."
~~ Fran Lebowitz
"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women."
~~ Margaret Thatcher
"Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us."
~~ minimalist sculptor Carl Andre
"Circumstances make man, not man circumstances."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"The pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating, and the most intense is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
~~ Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49]
"Wanting to meet an author because you like his books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté."
~~ Margaret Atwood
"Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion."
~~ Franklin Pierce [1804-69]
"He who laughs has not yet heard the terrible news."
~~ Bertolt Brecht [1898-1956]
"Newt Gingrich embodies the vanity and rapacity that make modern Washington repulsive."
~~ conservative columnist George Will
"Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs."
~~ Ann Landers {Eppie Lederer 1918-2002}
“In the war of ideas, it's not enough just to be against something; you have to be for something that is sound as well.”
~~ Lech Walesa
"The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds."
~~ Lenny Bruce [1925-66]
"Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes."
~~ John Le Carre
"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."
~~ Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]
"I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good."
~~ Hollywood mogul Harry Cohn [1891-1958]
"Capitalism must be holy because religion is a business."
~~ minimalist sculptor Carl Andre
"Saving is a very fine thing. Especially if your parents have done it for you."
~~ Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
~~ Thomas Paine [1737-1809]
"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."
~~ Margaret Thatcher
"Intelligence requires that you don't defend an assumption."
~~ physicist David Bohm [1917-92]
"Wishes cost nothing unless you want them to come true."
~~ cartoonist Frank Tyger
"No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the rights of minorities."
~~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1882-1945]
"The man who does more than he is paid [for] will soon be paid for more than he does."
~~ Napoleon Hill [1883-1970]
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
~~ Virginia Woolf [1882-1941]
"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadfully uneasy to take."
~~ Josh Billings [1818-85]
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
~~ Franz Kafka [1883-1924]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
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