victoria beckham quotes
When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. ~Bernard Baily
Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ~Psalms 42:1
Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ~John Louis von Neumann
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. ~George Bernard Shaw
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own. ~Michael Korda
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ~Henri Cartier Bresson
Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Dale (Thanks, Anne)
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, 1819
Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. ~Art Buchwald, 1969
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. ~Thomas Jefferson
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. ~Nicholas P. Negroponte
Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. ~Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947
Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. ~C.E. Lucas-Phillips, The New Small Garden
Some folks wear their halos much too tight. ~Author Unknown
Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! ~Don A. Dillman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January 1977