Jack Palance: "Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean shit."
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. ~Arthur Miller
Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening. ~Aaron Howard
For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them. ~C.E.M. Joad
The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m. ~Author Unknown
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~John Updike
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation. ~Louis Fabian Bachrach
Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. ~Charles R. Magel
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ~James Michener
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. ~J.A. McIntosh
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. ~Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. ~Floyd W. Tomkins
Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not. ~Author Unknown
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. ~Thomas A. Edison
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. ~Daniel 5:27
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi to Rose-leaf and Apple-leaf, 1882
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. ~Graham Greene
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. ~Denis Waitely
Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty! ~Lucy Larcom