Showing posts with label George Ade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Ade. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Quote (#520)

"Where there is love there is life."
- Mohandas Gandhi

"An empty canvas is a living wonder...
far lovelier than certain pictures."
- Wassily Kandinsky

"Music is the medicine of the mind."
- John A. Logan

"The most profound things
are inexpressible."
- Jenny Holzer

"Music washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life."
- Berthold Auerbach

"'Whom are you?' he asked, for he
had attended business college."
- George Ade

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

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Quotes

"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers,
he had decided to write for Posterity."
- George Ade

"A fellow who is always declaring he's
no fool usually has his suspicions."
- Wilson Mizner

"It's a lot like nature. You only have as
many animals as the ecosystem can support
and you only have as many friends as you
can tolerate the bitching of."
- Randy K. Milholland

"An epigram often flashes light into
regions where reason shines but dimly."
- Edwin P. Whipple

We must use time creatively and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

Reflective thinking turns
experience into insight
- John Maxwell