Miscellaneous Proverbs And Sayings

#1. Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

W.B.Yeats

#2. Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

Edward Abbey

#3. Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

Vincent Van Gogh

#4. I want my options left open." Her last words left her breathless, and she leaned in closer, her breath on his chin. "When I see that spark in your eyes, while you're talking about your career,

Melissa Foster

#5. It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single thing we do is intended to distract us from that reality.

Armistead Maupin

#6. Attention is the mind's feet; if you do not control your attention strictly, it runs into misleading pathways.

Zicheng Hong

#7. You can tell I don't like this book, because I drew in it. And that's better than anything else that's in this book.

Dan Bergstein

#8. I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.

Lenny Kravitz

#9. It might be odd for people to hear this, but honestly, you know, when you're on stage, I don't think people realize how grueling eight shows a week is. And as far as jobs go, being a Broadway actor, it's hard. It's fun, but it's hard.

Will Chase

#10. That's if everything goes as planned.

Randall Munroe

#11. What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

B.B. King

#12. We have seen each other. You just weren't looking.

Herbs Navasca

#13. I love beginnings. If I were in charge of calendars, every day would be January 1. And

Jerry Spinelli

#14. Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

Peter Richmond