1676 Quotes

#1. Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement.

John Gierach

#2. The fact that light travels at a finite, but very high, speed was first discovered in 1676 by the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer.

Stephen Hawking

#3. Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

Mark Haddon

#4. Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

Jacques Maritain

#5. People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

Bodhidharma

#6. To disagree one doesnt have to be disagreeable

Barry M. Goldwater

#7. Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

Steve Goodier

#8. Though what is 'Romeo and Juliet' after all?" he added after a short pause. "The beauty of poetry and holiness of love are simply the roses under which they try to hide its rottenness. Romeo is just the same sort of animal as all the rest of us.

Anton Chekhov

#9. If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.

Chuck Black

#10. Some primal termite knocked on wood.
And tasted it, and found it good.
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.

Ogden Nash

#11. Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up.

Debasish Mridha

#12. I really don't believe in magic.

J.K. Rowling

#13. The secret of success is a pleasant personality with a sincere enthusiastic attitude.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Profoundly moved, he kissed the lax waiting mouth with exquisite unhappiness.

Leonard Gardner

#15. Shit of ten horses," his twin said in the Old Language. "The new aftershave of the lessers," Phury muttered, rubbing his eyes.

J.R. Ward

#16. Life will always knock you down. Learn to roll with the punches and get back up. Then go again."

"An author cannot grow without both constructive criticism and encouragement.

Catrina Barton