Quotaria

"When we ask for advice, we are
usually looking for an accomplice."
- Marquis de la Grange

"The sad truth is that excellence
makes people nervous."
- Shana Alexander

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day
when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and
we don't know where the hell she is."
- Ellen DeGeneres

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not
its top for any blast that blows.
- Dante Alighieri

Art is a collaboration between
God and the artist, and the
less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide

When I was born I was so surprised
I didn't talk for a year and a half.
- Gracie Allen

Quotes

"Be faithful to that which
exists within yourself."
- Andre Gide

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't
the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."
- Robert Benchley

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It's not a matter of whether or not
someone's watching over you. It's just
a question of their intentions."
- Randy K. Milholland

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them
behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except
a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that
once our eyes watered."
- Tom Stoppard

"There are 350 varieties of shark,
not counting loan and pool."
L. M. Boyd

Quotes

"The first time I see a jogger
smiling, I'll consider it."
- Joan Rivers

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness;
there is also the success of others."
- Jules Renard

"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut
our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!"
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"We cannot command Nature
except by obeying her."
- Francis Bacon

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

It is better to be hated for what you are,
than to be loved for what you are not!
- Andre Gide