Random Quotes
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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.Leonard Bernstein
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.George Bernard Shaw, "Answers to Nine Questions"
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.Alfred Hitchcock
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.Spanish Proverb
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.Stephen Jay Gould
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.Stephen Jay Gould
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953