Quote: A Good Book

Whenever you read a good book,

it’s like the author is right there, in the room talking to you,

which is why I don’t like to read good books.

 

-- Jack Handy

Quote: The Future

The future cannot be predicted,

but futures can be invented.

 

-- Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist

Quote: Ideas

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally,

for one of them may be the king.

 

-- Mark Van Doren

Quote: Pebbles

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

-- H. Emilie Cady

Quote: Doctors

Isn’t it a bit unnerving

that doctors call what they do

“practice”?

 

-- George Carlin

Quote: Mountain

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

-- Edmund Hillary

Quote: The Great Geniuses

The great geniuses are those

who have kept their childlike spirit

and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

 

-- Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer

Quote: Rules

Learn the rules like a pro,

so you can break them like an artist.

 

-- Pablo Picasso

Quote: Darkness & Hate

Darkness cannot drive out darkness,

only light can do that. 

Hate cannot drive out hate;

only love can do that.

 

--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote: Observation

You can observe a lot by just watching.

--Yogi Berra

Quote: Impromptu

It usually takes more than three weeks

to prepare a good impromptu speech.

--Mark Twain

Quote: Potential

Continuous effort -

not strength or intelligence -

is the key to unlocking our potential.

--Winston Churchill

Quote: Sorrow

Sorrow makes men sincere.

--Henry Ward Beecher

Quote: Solitude

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

--Voltaire

Quote: Sacks

To me, it’s always a good idea 

to carry two sacks of something when you walk around. 

That way, if anybody says, ‘Hey, can you give me a hand?’

You can say, ‘Sorry, got these sacks.’

  

--Jack Handy

Quote: Charlie Hebdo

I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

 

--Stephane Charbonnier (1967 – 2015), publisher, Charlie Hebdo

Quote: Art of Conversation

The real art of conversation is

not only to say the right thing in the right place

but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

 

 

-- Lady Dorothy Nevill

 

Quote: Stained-Glass Windows

People are like stained-glass windows.

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,

but when the darkness sets in,

their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

 

 -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Quote: Toasters

Never put a sock in a toaster.

 

 

-- Eddie Izzard