21forfun Quotes

#1. Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

Christopher McQuarrie

#2. Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

James Weldon Johnson

#3. There's progress for you. A bigger and better mousetrap every month. Pretty soon, we'll all be able to kill all the mice at the same time.

Paul Auster

#4. Finally he looked north. He saw the Wall shining like blue crystal, and his bastard brother Jon sleeping alone in a cold bed, his skin growing pale and hard as the memory of all warmth fled from him.

George R R Martin

#5. We carry in our incarnate being the alphabet & the grammar of life, but this does not presuppose an achieved meaning either in us or in it.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#6. The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.

Francis Stuart Campbell

#7. The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.

Joel Barlow

#8. He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

Orison Swett Marden