Showing posts with label Tallulah Bankhead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tallulah Bankhead. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Quotaria

"I have never met a man so ignorant that
I couldn't learn something from him."
- Galileo Galilei


"I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue
that I shall some day die, which is not so."
- Stephen Leacock

"Indecision may or may
not be my problem."
- Jimmy Buffett

"My Father had a profound influence
on me, he was a lunatic."
- Spike Milligan

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience,
loyalty, and the importance of turning around
three times before lying down."
- Robert Benchley

"Here's a rule I recommend: Never
practice two vices at once."
- Tallulah Bankhead

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Quotes

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed,
but win out in the end because they've stayed true to
their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
- Kevin Costner

None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It's the good girls who keep diaries;
the bad girls never have the time."
- Tallulah Bankhead

"The truth that makes men free is for the most
part the truth which men prefer not to hear."
- Herbert Agar

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only becuase
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
- Eric Blair (George Orwell)

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature
does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Friday, November 28, 2008

Quotaria

"I think age is a very high
price to pay for maturity."
- Tom Stoppard

"Action is the foundational
key to all success."
- Pablo Picasso

"If I had to live my life again, I'd
make the same mistakes, only sooner."
- Tallulah Bankhead

"The sun, the earth, love, friends, our
very breath are parts of the banquet."
- Rebecca H. Davis

"There is a muscular energy in
sunlight corresponding to the
spiritual energy of wind."
- Annie Dillard

"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue
dome that hangs over everything is better."
- Thomas Carlyle

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Quotes - Oneliners

I'm as pure as the driven slush.
- Tallulah Bankhead

Confusion is always the most honest response.
- Marty Indik

"Fortune favours the bold."
- Virgil

"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
- Paul Engle

Actions lie louder than words.
- Carolyn Wells

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte