love and distance quotes
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. ~Author Unknown
We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ~W.S. Merwin
Lord! when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ~Christopher Morley
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. ~Author Unknown
Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too. I'm not claiming I write great software, but I know that when it comes to code I behave in a way that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way. It drives me crazy to see code that's badly indented, or that uses ugly variable names. ~Paul Graham, "Hackers and Painters," 2003
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point,we have to take sides. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. ~D.H. Lawrence
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys. ~Doug Horton
Few great men could pass Personnel. ~Paul Goodman, Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society, 1956
I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx
The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. ~Germaine Greer
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one. ~Paul Heyne The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one. ~Paul Heyne
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them." ~Charles Edward Montague, Dramatic Values
It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ~Pablo Picasso
Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard. ~David Gerrold The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back. ~Author Unknown
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. ~St. Augustine
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana
