Last Updated 1/5/24.
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” - John Lennon
“I
went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the
essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
- Henry David Thoreau
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour..."
-The start of "The Auguries of Innocence" -
William Blake
Know Thyself - Oracle at Delphi
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” – Heraclitus
Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will have me as a member. - Groucho Marx
"Write drunk, edit sober." - Hemingway
'They turn the lights off, and its white globe glows an instant and then disolves, like a tablet in a glass of darkness.' - Tomas Transtromer
When you come to the fork in the road take it. - Yogi Berra
A horse walks into a bar, the bartender says, "Hey, why the long face?" -Anon
Hamlet: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - Shakespeare
'My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!'
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The past is never dead. It's not even past. - William Faulkner
If you are going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
"London Calling upon the Zombies of death. Quit holding out - and draw another breath." - The Clash
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. - Douglas Adams
Any culture that destroys its own life support systems and calls that progress is totally insane. - John Croft
Sophie Tucker:
It was on the occasion of Ernie’s eightieth birthday. He rang me up and said, “Soph! Soph! I just married myself a twenty-year old girl. What do you think of that?”
I said to him, “Ernie, when I am eighty I shall marry me a twenty-year old boy. And let me tell you something Ernie: Twenty GOES INTO eighty a heckova lot more than eighty GOES INTO twenty!”
The rational man adapts himself to the world. The irrational man tries to adapt the world to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the irrational man. - George Bernard Shaw
Polonius: 'To thine own self be true.' - Shakespeare
I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. - Albert Einstein
I’m the one who’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. - Jimi Hendrix
When looking for character motivation remember the primary four 'F's of behavior: Feeding, Fighting, Fleeing, and Sex. Anon
The mass of man live lives of quiet desperation. - Henry David Thoreau
