My Favorite Quotes
These are some of my favorite quotes...
- "Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark."
- O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)
- "If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton
- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "
- Albert Einstein
- "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali
- "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley
- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."
- Robert Oppenheimer
- "Hitch your wagon to a star."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams."
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy
- "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
- "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
- Aldous Huxley
- "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
- Victor Hugo
- "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
- Plato
- "Don't let school interfere with your education."
- "Live so you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell."
- "There's a good reason some people can't seem to mind their own business. Usually it's because they have either 1) no business or 2) no mind."
- "Do something brilliant and no one is watching.
Do something stupid and the whole world is watching."
- "If you know all the answers, you probably misunderstood some of the questions."
- "Time may pass quickly or slowly, depending on how far you are from the nearest restroom."
- "Living in a small town makes it easy to resist temptation."
- "It's better to ask stupid questions than make stupid mistakes."
- "Opportunity knocks once.
Temptation never stops knocking."
- "Silence can be an excellent substitute for brilliance."
- "Final instruction in a computer manual: 'If all else fails, pound fist on keyboard to continue.'"
- "Rotisserie: a Ferris wheel for dead chickens."
- music interval: the distance between two pianos.
- "Love, like fire, needs constant motion; when it ceases to hope, or fear, love dies."
- "Don't overload your kitchen's electric outlets. If you have to, you can plug your blender in in the living room and tell your guests it's a jacuzzi for your goldfish."
- "Do light bulbs push light out or suck dark in?"
- "Live people just don't understand, do they?"
- "Wasted dreams are wasted experiences."
- "Love is the only constant in a world of variables."
- "As the sun drops into the deep dark water, the sky burns with the passion of two lone lovers. Their bodies entabled in sand, their lips pressesd tight. The pain. The pleasure. Love and hate combine. The night is born."
- "The joy of love. The heart break it brings. The light in the dark. The act that extinguished. The pleasure. The pain. The craving. The quencher. It is everthing and yet nothing. Pure as heaven's angels. Stained with sin. Love."
- "When things go wrong, don't go with them."
- "The difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."
- "None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives."
- Kathleen Norris
- "We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may be."
- May Sarton
- "We are tomorrow's past."
- Mary Webb
- "Life is a series on collisions with the future..."
- Gassett
- "The world is all gates, all opportunites, string of tension waiting to be struck."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not."
- Ruth P. Freedman
- "Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."
- Saint Francis de Sales
- "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
- John F. Kennedy
- "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger