Showing posts with label Albert Camus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albert Camus. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Quote (#506)

"Fatherhood is pretending the present
you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
- Bill Cosby

"Only the educated are free."
- Epictetus

"Laughter is America's
most important export."
- Walt Disney

"We are not retreating - we are
advancing in another direction."
- Douglas MacArthur

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I
realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin

"A guilty conscience needs to confess.
A work of art is a confession."
- Albert Camus

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Quotaria

"Television has brought back murder
into the home - where it belongs."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"We build statues out of snow,
and weep to see them melt."
- Walter Scott

"As I grow older , I regret to say
that a detestable habit of thinking
seems to be getting a hold of me."
- H. Rider Haggard


"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university
stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could
have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery O'Connor

"Anybody can win unless there
happens to be a second entry."
- George Ade

"Charm is a way of getting the answer
yes without asking a clear question."
- Albert Camus

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever
remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The limits of my language
mean the limits of my world.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying
of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Thomas H. Huxley

"Autumn is a second spring
when every leaf is a flower."
- Albert Camus


"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System,
it is now possible to travel from coast
to coast without seeing anything."
- Charles Kuralt

"Never have more children
than you have car windows."
- Erma Bombeck

Monday, February 16, 2009

Quotes

"It took me fifteen years to discover that I
had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give
it up because by that time I was too famous."
- Robert Benchley

"I'm a jerk to everyone. Best way
to protect yourself from lawsuits."
- David Hoselton

"My parents only had one argument in forty-five
years. It lasted forty-three years."
- Cathy Ladman

"Nobody realizes that some people expend
tremendous energy merely to be normal."
- Albert Camus

"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists
agrees on something or other, reach for your
wallet, because you're being had."
- Michael Crichton

"In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life: it goes on."
- Robert Frost