Quotes By Famous Authors: [W]
What was the use of being grown up if you couldn't take a little risk now and then?
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied.
We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.
We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the earth.
Whether an observation is significant depends on what theories one already accepts.
If you overdo something, you end up typecast. You always have to expand.
Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.
By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ ...
It's a little sobering to think that everyone we have ever seen, or will ever see, will someday be dead. And it's depressing to consider ...
Before ya know it, all of today's tomorrows slip into yesterdays.Credit: Gerty Murphy reminiscing in Barnstorm
How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back ...
Victory" in TIbet means liberation from cyclic existence (life, drama, aging, disease, death)
Failure is an event, never a person.
Work done by human beings for human beings.
Too young for a lot of things, but that didn't stop them from happening.
He turned and looked her solemnly in the eyes. "Is it too much to ask for a happy ending?" She smiled sadly. "I don't think ...
From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.
Gardens are our link with the divine.
To paraphrase the great humorist, Will Rogers . . . "We're all ignorant, but only on different subjects".
If you do not like the past, change it.
You've got a friend in God and He's the most powerful entity the universe has ever known, the One that created it all. So, you ...
People are always making rules for themselves and always finding loop-holes.
It was perfectly instinctive. I knew if I said I was a dancer he'd have made certain assumptions. I've been receiving this response more and ...
Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen ...
If it's any comfort to you, collar me again. You don't in the least know how to do it; but I'll overlook your awkwardness in ...
Coelorum perrupit claustra.He broke through the barriers of the skies.[Herschel's epitaph]
Hyperbolic statements will be the death of us all
Read your Bible, go to church, say your prayers, and ask God to take care of you; then you need never fear dreams or anything ...
Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime
We carry our house plants from one window to another to give them the proper heat, light, and moisture. Should we not be at least ...
I'm a little disappointed I didn't get fiddled with by a TSA agent at the airport. I feel unwanted. Maybe next time.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the grass surface on most miniature golf courses was actually goat hair that had been dyed green.
When Jesus wept, the falling tearin mercy flowed beyond all bound;when Jesus groaned, a trembling fearseized all the guilty world around.
When I was six and already able to read and write Polish, my uncle the curate taught me Latin. Since he had no suitable textbook, ...
I could knock out loads of what I term aromatherapy music pretty swiftly. If you want something that is going to last, however, you're going ...
I'm lucky because I have an athlete between my legs.
Stand and answer! Why are ye come? By whom are ye sent to trouble me? I am a knight of the Great King. In the ...
We need to put in proper safeguards. How are we going to feel if somebody leases to the Taliban?
No escape--like life itself.
A nation has no conscience. How can it be aroused? A eunuch in bed with a doll is not disturbed.
Rocks are the key to Earth history, because solids remember but liquids and gases forget.
We're coming! She felt like shouting it to the sky. We're on our way!
Sleep is an essential part of life-but more important, sleep is a gift.
Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching blindly ...
What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in ...
All sin is ultimately irrational. Though people persuade themselves that they have good reasons for sinning, when examined in the cold light of truth on ...
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
For me, my taste isn't limited to magical films. Whatever I read and I like, I go up for, and a lot of the time ...
If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always be ...