Spolsky Specs Quotes

#1. I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.

Philip Larkin

#2. Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#3. We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.

Eugene O'Neill

#4. What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Walt Whitman

#5. If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Martina Navratilova

#6. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Basil The Great

#7. What if nothing needs to change other than our perception of what we see?

Lee L Jampolsky

#8. Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Wole Soyinka

#9. When you find the one, my lad, grab her up in your arms and never let her go. You may never get another chance.

Gaelen Foley

#10. Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.

T.A. Uner

#11. He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do.

P.G. Wodehouse

#12. There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

David Bowie

#13. There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats

#14. There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Albert Camus