June 27, 2013:
I’m sure some we have some Zeople that are fans of writer Chris Guillebeau, yeah?
Here’s an awesome poster designed from one of his quotes: http://i.imgur.com/TOumskE.jpg
Lots of good nuggets in there — be inspired!
Tag: quotes
Charles M Schulz Gave Away Snoopy
“We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won’t like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel.” — Charles M. Schulz
T.S. Eliot on feeling important
Half of the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
– T.S. Eliot
Marilyn on Hollywood
“Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” – Marilyn Monroe
“….All We’ve Read….”
“We can only hope that, contrary to surface amnesia, all we’ve read is still within us somewhere.”
-Alain de Botton
Churchill on “tact”
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
Life (Annette Funicello)
“The night hides a world, but reveals a universe”
“…..as they leave the theater….”
“When people crowd one another as they leave the theater, isn’t it because, after having so much presence offered to them, they cannot bear the curtain?” – Rilke
Words of Wit
Some collections of wit, collected mostly from the Futility Closet – an excellent blog.
P. Picasso
Picasso said of his portrait of Gertrude Stein, “Everybody thinks that the portrait is not like her, but never mind, in the end she will look like the portrait.”
T. Carlyle
John Stuart Mill once suggested that Thomas Carlyle write a history of the French Revolution. When Mill received the finished manuscript, his maid mistook it for trash and burned it. Carlyle had to write the whole thing over again from memory.
He said the final book came “direct and flamingly from the heart.”
P. Erdos
“Why are numbers beautiful? It’s like asking why is Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.” — Paul Erdös
W. Churchill
In 1931, George Bernard Shaw wired Winston Churchill: “Am reserving two tickets for you on opening night of my new play. Come bring a friend — if you have one.”
Churchill wired back: “Impossible for me to attend first performance. Would like to attend second night — if there is one.”
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