Halcyone Poetry Quotes

#1. That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

Ovid

#2. Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Nothing ever goes back on the vine.

Steve Weddle

#4. If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman.

Debbie Reynolds

#5. To make a difference is just ... I think ... the purpose of what life is.

Anastacia

#6. Just think: your family are the people most likely to give you the flu.

Jane Wagner

#7. The I think, I am, is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not my being, for everything is only of God or of the totality.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

#8. What the hell. Was he going to bring out a gramophone or Morse code machine too?

Shirley Marr

#9. There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#10. DNA is, as it were, especially unalive. It is among the most nonreactive, chemically inert molecules in the living world,

Bill Bryson

#11. At least 25% of the money Americans spend on health care is wasted.

Joseph A. Califano Jr.