Quotes

"All right everyone, line up alphabetically
according to your height."
- Casey Stengel

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-
minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
- Evan Esar

The one thing more difficult than following
a regimen is not imposing it on others.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

A little rebellion now
and then is a good thing.
- Thomas Jefferson

"Everything comes to him
who hustles while he waits."
- Thomas Edison

"Procrastination isn't the problem,
it's the solution. So procrastinate
now, don't put it off."
- Ellen DeGeneres

Quotaria

"I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes
up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you
don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'"
- Ellen DeGeneres

"I despise the pleasure of
pleasing people that I despise."
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

"Take care of the luxuries and the
necessities will take care of themselves."
- Dorothy Parker

"Computers are useless. They
can only give you answers."
- Pablo Picasso

"Reality is the leading cause of stress
amongst those in touch with it."
- Jane Wagner

"Read nature; nature is
a friend to truth."
- Edward Young

Quotes

"It is like the seed put in the soil - the
more one sows, the greater the harvest."
- Orison Swett Marden

"I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to
be, a godmother. She calls me god for short,
that's cute, I taught her that."
- Ellen DeGeneres

"Three o'clock is always too late or too
early for anything you want to do."
- Jean-Paul Sartre

"The fall of dropping water
wears away the Stone."
- Lucretius

"An incompetent attorney can delay a
trial for months or years. A competent
attorney can delay one even longer."
- Evelle J. Younger

"Success is simple. Do what's right,
the right way, at the right time."
- Arnold H. Glasow

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

Now we sit through Shakespeare in
order to recognize the quotations.
- Orson Welles

"Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough,
but it's worse when they are wearing dark
glasses and have streamers in their antlers
because then you know they were enjoying
themselves at a party when they were shot."
- Ellen DeGeneres

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls
his business, is only to be sustained by
perpetual neglect of many other things."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Think of what would happen to us in America
if there were no humorists; life would be one
long Congressional Record."
- Tom Masson

"The trouble with our times is that the
future is not what it used to be."
- Paul Valery

"I had to live in the desert before
I could understand the full value of
grass in a green ditch."
- Ella Maillart

Quotaria

"Success didn't spoil me, I've
always been insufferable."
- Fran Lebowitz

Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's
worth it because the future depends on them.
- Pam Davis

Happiness in intelligent people
is the rarest thing I know.
- Ernest Hemingway

I don't know half of you half as well as I
should like; and I like less than half of
you half as well as you deserve.
- J. R. R. Tolkien

A physicist is an atom's way
of knowing about atoms.
- George Wald

In the beginning there was nothing. God
said, 'Let there be light!' And there was
light. There was still nothing, but you
could see it a whole lot better.
- Ellen DeGeneres