Alday Quotes

#1. It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#2. In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Austin O'Malley

#3. Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power? ... He who in himself sees all things, is all things.

Giordano Bruno

#4. Three things are forever consistent: the passing of time, the rotation of the Earth, and the ringmaster of Vagabond Circus.

Sarah Noffke

#5. That which is most personal, is most interesting.

William James

#6. My job is to show and tell. If I get better at showing and telling then presumably I get hired more.

Tom Hardy

#7. If truth is what each of us believed, and we each believe differently, there would be no such thing as truth. Truth stands against what's false. If there is no true and false, light and dark, right and wrong, then there is nothing to guide human morality.

Jill Williamson

#8. The hurdles have taught me that if you work really, really hard at perfecting the little things in your life, the big picture will come together.

John Shaffer

#9. Artists are mostly shits of the worst order. You wouldn't want one living next door to you. Think about it: Vincent Van Gogh living next door, coming over to borrow your ear and a cup of sugar every morning-Good God!

Stan Brakhage

#10. A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

Andy Hargreaves

#11. Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

Pauline Kael

#12. I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

Hans Rosling

#13. The Society music plays around and over us, but our thoughts are our own.

Ally Condie

#14. I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

Mae West

#15. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

#16. Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life.

Kilroy J. Oldster