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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
- Will Durst
- Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
- Anonymous
- Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
- J. H. Holmes
- People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. - Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-29-06
- I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- Terry Pratchett
- I've decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 06-04-08
- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.
- Clyde B. Aster
- I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
- Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), 'Eleanora,' 1842
- Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
- William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
- Farmers' Almanac, 1978
- The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
- Ellen Glasglow
- The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
- William J. Broad
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