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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
- To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
- Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
- Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), From "Betting on the Muse"
- If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
- Brendan Francis
- It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
- A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.
- Joseph Rickaby
- The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
- Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
- Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
- The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
- The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills (1929 - )
- Nothing fails like success.
- Gerald Nachman
- One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
- Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
- Running cross country is the closest man will ever get to flying.
- Joseph Vanderstel
- Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
- Saskya Pandita
- When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)
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