Showing posts with label Maya Angelou. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maya Angelou. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Quotes

"The least movement is of importance to all nature.
The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
- Blaise Pascal

"Nothing will work unless you do."
- Maya Angelou


"A wide screen just makes
a bad film twice as bad."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby

No one appreciates the very special genius
of your conversations as a dog does.
- Christopher Morley


Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints a
man should catch young and have done with, for when
it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
- PG Wodehouse

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotaria

The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along and
trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett

'And he goes around killing people?' said Mort.
He shook his head. 'THERE'S NO JUSTICE.'
Death sighed. NO, he said, THERE'S JUST ME.
- Mort, Terry Pratchett

Every person has the choice between
Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand
against those who would choose Evil.
- Friedrich Kellner

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't
change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
- Maya Angelou

"Better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought
a fool than to open it an remove all doubt."
- Chinese proverb (? maybe Voltaire instead)

A new idea is delicate.
It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn;
it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the
right person's brow.
- Charles Brower