Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Great Famous Quotes
Elizabeth Hardwick
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
William O. Douglas
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
Blair Houghton
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare
H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
There is�nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
The older I get, the more I feel
almost beautiful...
Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.
American Proverb
Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.
Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
Demosthenes
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
Athenus
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
Louise Erdrich
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.
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Straight to the Famous Quotes ...
Elizabeth Hardwick
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
William O. Douglas
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
Blair Houghton
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare
H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
There is�nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
The older I get, the more I feel
almost beautiful...
Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.
American Proverb
Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.
Edgar Allan Poe, Berenice
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
Demosthenes
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
Athenus
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
Louise Erdrich
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.
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