Quotable Quotes

[Iceman]

"Little words never hurt a big idea."
- Howard Newton

 

[Iceman]

"Never fight an inanimate object."
- P. J. O'Rourke

 

[Iceman]

"The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
- James Crook

 

[Iceman]

"If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck."
- Elvis Presley

 

[Iceman]

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other."
- Luciano De Crescenzo

 

[niki]

"If you don't get everything you want, think about all the things you don't get that you don't want."

 

[Iceman]

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are
willing to admit that they are crazy.
Nora Ephron

 

[Iceman]

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown

 

[Iceman]

In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)

 

[Heyjud]

Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry.
John Lennon

 

[Iceman]

“And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun”
- “Time”, Pink Floyd

 

[Heyjud]

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go....
Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Oh! The Places You'll Go!

 

[Iceman]

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Eve Babitz

 

[Iceman]

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

 

[Iceman]

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

 

[Iceman]

Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin (1935 - )

 

[Iceman]

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"

 

[Iceman]

"Live like you're going to die tomorrow.
Learn like you're going to live forever."

- Albert Einstein

 

[Iceman]

“With no reprise
The sun will rise
The long day is over”
- “The long day is over”, Norah Jones

 

[Iceman]

“Though I’m not paid I play this game
And I won’t stop until I’m done”
- “Are You Gonna Go My Way”, Lenny Kravitz

 

[Iceman]

“What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.”
- Thomas Sprat

 

[Iceman]

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin

 

[Heyjud]

You'd better let somebody love you before it's too late.
---"Desperado" by The Eagles

 

[Iceman]

“Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.”
- James Bryant Conant

 

[Iceman]

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905

 

[Iceman]

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing
which ones to keep.
Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'

 

[Iceman]

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

 

[Iceman]

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on
the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)

 

[Iceman]

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

 

[Iceman]

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the
rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )