Quipster Quotes

#1. I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi ... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.

Ron Carlson

#2. Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.

Piet Mondrian

#3. Death is the final sleep that you never awaken from.

Steven Magee

#4. You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#5. Although being human brings me the greatest delight~ being human also means that I have limitations

Nina Montgomery

#6. Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

W.B.Yeats

#7. It lives and breathes in the light, because it has thousands of unfortunates toiling in the darkness. It lives and has its being in proud liberty because thousands are slaving for it, whose thraldom is the price of this liberty. This

Upton Sinclair

#8. Try to avoid panic because it leads to chaos, which leads to accidents. You get hurt that way.

Nora Roberts

#9. I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that.

Pharrell Williams

#10. Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

Jean Paul

#11. There is just no sensible, logical reason why we would not make use of stem cell research.

Arlen Specter

#12. There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. The figure coming up the driveway was not Milton's Lucifer. It was the Devil.

Neil Gaiman

#14. It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

Richard Dawkins

#15. No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.

Diane Chamberlain