Famous Quotes Ipsum

Clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society. if you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ''good morning'' at total strangers. our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities, or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidence. there is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? the fact is, i was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of myself, as the french would say: i was conscious that at moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties and, like any other rebel slave, i felt resolved, in my desperation, to go to all lengths. what is life? it is the flash of a firefly in the night. it is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. it is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset..

Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. anger that things are the way they are. courage to make them the way they should be. it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. sometimes i feel like i'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst, and then i remember to relax and stop trying to hold on to it and it flows through me like rain and i can feel nothing but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid, little life. you have no idea what i'm talking about, i'm sure, but don't worry. you will someday. there are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. i know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. they wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. she walks in beauty, like the night / of cloudless climes and starry skies; / and all that's best of dark and bright / meet in her aspect and her eyes: / thus mellow'd to that tender light / which heaven to gaudy day denies the change of life comes when you meet yourself at a crossroads and you decide whether to be honest or not before you die. 'when i was a kid,' said irie softly, ringing the bell for their stop, 'i used to think they were little alibis. bus tickets. i mean, look: they've got the time. the date. the place. and if i was up in court, and i had to defend myself, and prove i wasn't where they said i was, doing what they said i did, when they said i did it, i'd pull out one of those.' music has been in my heart all the time, and poetry in my thoughts. any job a man can do to make his way in the world is a decent job as long as he works hard and does his best. god didn't put sweat on a man's body for no reason. he put it there so he could work hard, cleanse himself and feel proud. hard workin' folks only smell bad to some folks who have nothing better to do but stick their noses in the air. if you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ''good morning'' at total strangers. creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. the fear of death follows from the fear of life. a man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. i discovered i scream the same way whether i'm about to be devoured by a great white or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to men is felt to be so divine. it brings us nearer to the infinite. the earth laughs in flowers..

The artist's life is in his work, and this is the place to observe him. everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. i am woman, hear me roar! truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. but surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to speed the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect. and as archie knows, it's not like that. it's never been like that. these qualities are rare enough in a world where sexual performance has become as obligatory as sexual abstinence - or the pretension to it - once was. the worst by-product of the so-called sexual revolution is the substitution of performance for passion. one thing i've learned all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. there are no mistakes, no coincidences. all events are blessings given to us to learn from. our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities, or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidence. do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. too often we get scared. scared of what we might not be able to do. scared of what people might think if we tried. we let fears stand in the way of our hopes. we say no when we want to say yes. we sit quietly when we want to scream. and we shout with the others when we should keep our mouths shut. why? after all, we do only go around once. there's really no time to be afraid. just do it. it isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. doing. what you'll discover will be wonderful. what you'll discover will be yourself. for what is it to die / the sun is always shining. even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for awhile, the sun is always shining. the sun never stops shining. and even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it never stops shining. we can't all, and some of us don't. that's all there is to it. surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory. perfection is terrible; it cannot have children. loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight. i wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. every hour i am more and more concentrated in you; every thing else tastes like chaff in my mouth. it occurred to him that, for the first time since his birth, life had said yes to archie jones. not simply an 'ok' or 'you-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you've-started', but a resounding affirmative. we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams..