Rosemarie Jarski - Words from the Wise: Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said
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I can levitate birds. No one cares. Steven Wright
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Robert Heinlein
It is always our inabilities that vex us. Joseph Joubert
Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly. Warning label on Batman costume
The girl who cant dance says the band cant play.
Jewish proverb
What one has to do, usually can be done. Eleanor Roosevelt
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. Lin Yutang
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. Henry David Thoreau
It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant. Ella Winter
Inaction may be the highest form of action.
Jerry Brown
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow, the faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. Marya Mannes
The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. Michael Faraday
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done. Baron de Montesquieu
It is so. It cannot be otherwise. Inscription on the ruins of a fifteenth-century cathedral in Amsterdam
Let It Be.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skilful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt. La Rochefoucauld
The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug. Peter Kay
Accident is veiled necessity. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas Edison
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill
There are five stages in the life of an actor 1) Whos Mary Astor? 2) Get me Mary Astor 3) Get me a Mary Astor type 4) Get me a young Mary Astor 5) Whos Mary Astor? Mary Astor
Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people with agents. Jean Kerr
If there wasnt something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me. Whoopi Goldberg
Theres a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic. Nicolas Cage
The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, dont we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
Elaine Dundy
If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out. Robert Benchley
Even her eyelashes acted. Virginia Woolf on Ellen Terry
If you give audiences a chance theyll do half your acting for you. Katharine Hepburn
We are all pretending The important thing is to maintain a straight face. Maurice Valency
Every actor has a natural animosity towards every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. Louise Brooks
Arabian proverb
Let him that would move the world, first move himself. Socrates
We are what we do. Erich Fromm
First do it, then say it. Russian proverb
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Oscar Wilde
It is in human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. Nicolas Chamfort
Action is the antidote to despair. Joan Baez
What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing. George Bernard Shaw
It is not doing the things we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
Walt Whitman
We must scrunch or be scrunched. Charles Dickens
Be a pianist, not a piano. A. R. Orage
A peasant must sit in his chair with his mouth open for a very long time before a roast duck will fly in. Chinese proverb
Youll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Irish proverb
There should be less talk What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someones house. That says enough. Mother Teresa
Just do it. Advertising slogan, Nike sportswear
We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us. Natalia Ginzburg
All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness and half Pout.
Lord Byron
Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl? Anne Frank
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obscolescence. Art Linkletter
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. Doug Larson
If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables. Lisa Alther
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice that is, until we have stopped saying, It got lost, and say, I lost it. George Harris
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
Tom Robbins
We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party. Don Henley
But childhood prolonged cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. Louise A. Bogan
Being a grown-up means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and heres the big curve for your parents.
Wendy Wasserstein
I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I dont know one who wouldnt fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. George Jean Nathan
A man is only as faithful as his options. Chris Rock
Madame, you must really be more careful. Suppose it had been someone else who found you like this.
Duc de Richelieu on discovering his wife in flagrante delicto
Why did you desert your wife for another woman? Because I am a bastard. Interviewer and Ernest Hemingway
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