162803 Quotes

#1. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

William Shakespeare

#2. One Macaca fuscata is cleverer than two Homines sapientes

David Mitchell

#3. Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

Ruth Ann Minner

#5. There are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#6. Home is the place I can live with myself, without hating myself.

Peggy Lampman

#7. Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Fran Lebowitz

#8. It always takes the truth a little bit longer to cross the finish line.

Kim Basinger

#9. He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

George MacDonald

#10. You don't make art out of good intentions.

Gustave Flaubert

#11. Extraverts, in other words, often stumble over themselves. They can talk too much and listen too little, which dulls their understanding of others' perspectives. They can fail to strike the proper balance between asserting and holding back, which can be read as pushy and drive people away.*

Daniel H. Pink

#12. This nation loves singing and loves acting.

Kate Smith

#13. Math is one of my favorite subjects.

Macaulay Culkin

#14. Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

Allen Ginsberg