Showing posts with label Fyodor Dostoevsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fyodor Dostoevsky. Show all posts

Friday, May 29, 2009

Quotaria

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky."
- Jimi Hendrix

The second half of a man's life is
made up of nothing but the habits he
has acquired during the first half.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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


"I want my children to have all the
things I couldn't afford. Then I
want to move in with them."
- Phyllis Diller

"If I had to choose, I would rather
have birds than airplanes."
- Charles Lindbergh

"Sunsets are so beautiful that they
almost seem as if we were looking
through the gates of Heaven."
- John Lubbock

Monday, February 16, 2009

Quotes

"Green is the prime color of the world, and
that from which its loveliness arises."
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and
fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
- George Best

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone
quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom
with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for
example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
- Laurence J. Peter

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has
seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Traditions are group efforts to keep
the unexpected from happening.
- Barbara Tober