"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}
Monday, December 26, 2011
Sunday, December 04, 2011
December 2011 Quotations
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
~~ Frederick Douglass [1818-95]
"Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve."
~~ Tehyi Hsieh [1884-1972]
"One person speaking up makes more noise than a thousand people who remain silent."
~~ Thom Hartnett
"Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic."
~~ Vladimir Nabokov [1899-1977]
"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."
~~ novelist Cynthia Ozick
"Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people."
~~ boxing champion Joe Frazier [1944-2011]
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
~~ Herbert Spencer [1820-1903]
"It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of a spider."
~~ Jonathan Swift [1667-1745]
"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
~~ Shirley Chisolm [1924-2005]
"The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it."
~~ journalist Mignon McLaughlin [1913-83]
"Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get."
~~ Kevin Costner
"Our government is in our education."
~~ H.G. Wells [1866-1946]
"If we are to reach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
~~ Frederick Douglass [1818-95]
"Your silence will not protect you."
~~ Audre Lorde [1934-92]
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
~~ George Orwell [1903-50]
"Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
~~ Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]
"As individual fingers we can be broken, but together we make a mighty fist."
~~ Native American leader Sitting Bull [1831?-1890]
"Make cornbread, not war."
~~ Charleston, South Carolina chef Sean Brock
"If people actually knew what was happening, they would be really pissed off. They should be."
~~ activist Barbara A. Brenner
"Old age is not a disease, it is a triumph."
~~ Maggie Kuhn [1905-95], founder of the GrayPanthers
QUIDQUID LATINE DICTUM SIT, ALTUM VIDETUR
("Anything said in Latin sounds profound")
DIEM DULCEM HABES ("Have a nice day")
"Virtue is necessary for the good life but not sufficient for the good life."
~~ Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.]
"Money is necessary for the good life but not sufficient for the good life."
~~ mis-attributed to Aristotle
"We are moving from a world created by privilege to a world created by community ... Global themes are emerging in response to cascading ecological crises and human suffering."
~~ eco-activist Paul Hawken
"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."
~~ Voltaire [1694-1778]
"It is better to live rich than to die rich."
~~ Dr. Samuel Johnson [1709-84]
"There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing."
~~ explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes
"He who fights for his rights can lose; he who does not fight has lost already."
~~ German labor slogan
"The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that [we] can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want."
~~ per Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1712-78]
"You are master of your words, but, once spoken, they control you."
~~ author uncertain
"Life is a four-letter word."
~~ Lenny Bruce [1925-66]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
~~ Frederick Douglass [1818-95]
"Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve."
~~ Tehyi Hsieh [1884-1972]
"One person speaking up makes more noise than a thousand people who remain silent."
~~ Thom Hartnett
"Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic."
~~ Vladimir Nabokov [1899-1977]
"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-82]
"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."
~~ novelist Cynthia Ozick
"Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people."
~~ boxing champion Joe Frazier [1944-2011]
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
~~ Herbert Spencer [1820-1903]
"It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of a spider."
~~ Jonathan Swift [1667-1745]
"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
~~ Shirley Chisolm [1924-2005]
"The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it."
~~ journalist Mignon McLaughlin [1913-83]
"Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get."
~~ Kevin Costner
"Our government is in our education."
~~ H.G. Wells [1866-1946]
"If we are to reach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
~~ Frederick Douglass [1818-95]
"Your silence will not protect you."
~~ Audre Lorde [1934-92]
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
~~ George Orwell [1903-50]
"Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it."
~~ Mark Twain [1835-1910]
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
~~ Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]
"As individual fingers we can be broken, but together we make a mighty fist."
~~ Native American leader Sitting Bull [1831?-1890]
"Make cornbread, not war."
~~ Charleston, South Carolina chef Sean Brock
"If people actually knew what was happening, they would be really pissed off. They should be."
~~ activist Barbara A. Brenner
"Old age is not a disease, it is a triumph."
~~ Maggie Kuhn [1905-95], founder of the GrayPanthers
QUIDQUID LATINE DICTUM SIT, ALTUM VIDETUR
("Anything said in Latin sounds profound")
DIEM DULCEM HABES ("Have a nice day")
"Virtue is necessary for the good life but not sufficient for the good life."
~~ Aristotle [384-322 B.C.E.]
"Money is necessary for the good life but not sufficient for the good life."
~~ mis-attributed to Aristotle
"We are moving from a world created by privilege to a world created by community ... Global themes are emerging in response to cascading ecological crises and human suffering."
~~ eco-activist Paul Hawken
"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."
~~ Voltaire [1694-1778]
"It is better to live rich than to die rich."
~~ Dr. Samuel Johnson [1709-84]
"There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing."
~~ explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes
"He who fights for his rights can lose; he who does not fight has lost already."
~~ German labor slogan
"The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that [we] can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want."
~~ per Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1712-78]
"You are master of your words, but, once spoken, they control you."
~~ author uncertain
"Life is a four-letter word."
~~ Lenny Bruce [1925-66]
{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}
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