The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another.

(source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/June)

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Not even if Hell freezes over and they play The Stanley Cup down there.

(Da Vinci)

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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

The difference between a genius and an idiot, is that the genius reads the instructions.

I'd rather be reading Bukowski.

A lot of women singers today seem to be saying, "If you love me and then hurt me, I'll die." I say, "If you love me then hurt me, I'll kick your ass."

(source: http://lemuseumdebenatar.com/ie1279.html)

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

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Come on, who cares about the religion of the guy your wife is boffing?

(Logan)

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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

It is easier to stay out than to get out.

A Southerner talks music.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter- it's the difference between lightning bug and the lightning.

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Be always careful not to take too much from an experience. A cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will never again sit upon a hot stove lid. Nor upon a cold stove lid.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

(source: Wikiquote)

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

The wind blows over the lake and stirs the surface of the water. Thus, visible effects of the invisible are manifested.

Memory is a child walking along the seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

A hot dog at the ballpark is better than steak at the Ritz.

When packing, spread everything out on the bed, take out half the clothes, and double the money!

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

Love is a frequency, and it's missing in the world today, that frequency.

I'm not one to sit here and say, "Oh, it's the Cinderella story." There are days when your foot is swollen and your glass slipper doesn't fit, but then you take a water pill and, the next day, it's fine.

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

(quoted in Cosmopolitan magazine)

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

The music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

He who limps is still walking.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Well done is better than well said. (attributed by Holiday Mathis)

Why make excuses when you could be making history?

If everyone is singing the same note, there is no harmony.

Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

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Never confuse movement with action. (as quoted by Marlene Dietrich, source: Wikiquote)

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

We'll always have Paris.

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You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.

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I am big! It's the pictures that got small.

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Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

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You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?

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Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.

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I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

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Go ahead, make my day.

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Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

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I'll have what she's having.

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Elegance doesn't mean getting noticed, it means being remembered.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

My father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.

Money couldn't buy you friends, but you get a better class of enemy.

Well, we can't stand around here doing nothing, people will think we're workmen.

When I look back, the fondest memory I have is not really of the Goons. It is of a girl called Julia with enormous breasts.

I don't mind dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

(as quoted in Last of the Goons by Bruce Bellingham)

Villainy wears many masks, none of which so dangerous as virtue...

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There's a sucker born every minute, but there's a hustler born every second.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

I knew her [Doris Day] before she was a virgin.

So little time and so little to do.

I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

When the price is right, everybody is a brother.

Culture is one thing, and varnish another. (contributed by Charityjoy, from Wings of Silver by Jo Petty)

Beauty is a choice. Choose yourself. Choose to be beautiful.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea.

--Bernard-Paul Heroux, 1900's Basque philosopher (Trader Joe's tea)


I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.

--Lu t'ung (Trader Joe's tea)


He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.

--Lao Tzu (Celestial Seasonings tea)


Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

--Plutarch (Celestial Seasonings tea)


Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

--Wu Men (Celestial Seasonings tea)

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Always remove, always strip away, never add. (contributed by Carol)

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Poor people get bored, too.

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I can give you a definite perhaps.

Let's have some new cliches.

Not to decide is to decide.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

You can observe a lot just by watchin'.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

I do not know upon which subject he will next employ his versatile incapacity.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

I will never hire a woman clerk. A woman would have to leave work at 6 p.m. and cook dinner for her husband.

Good fences make good neighbors. (from "Mending Wall")

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

[Hollywood is] a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

It is often easier to hide something than to hide the fact that you are hiding something.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

To be the funniest has always been my aim. Not the most philosophical, not the most profound, but the funniest.

If you want gratitude, get yourself a dog.

Romance without finance ain't got no chance.

A mob is like a river--it never runs uphill.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

I had rather men should ask why no statue has been erected in my honor, than why one has.

A beautiful face gets you the first five minutes. After that you're on your own.

As usual, there's a great woman behind every idiot (upon winning his permanent residence status in the U.S.).

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. (from "Beautiful Boy")

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. If it's a woman, it's too often pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word (commenting on critics who call her brand of interviewing caustic).

High school isn't a time and a place. It's a state of mind.

Sure, I'd play a hooker again, if she got to be Secretary of State.

When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.

I think a great novel could even come out of Beverly Hills.

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.

If God had meant for everything to happen at once, he would not have invented desk calendars.

The outdoors is what you have to pass through to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day; I've never had time for tobacco since.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions (referring to the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee).

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say, Don't listen to writers talking about writing or about themselves.

Nobody can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

We have no national memory.

When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

There's a desire today for more security and for a risk-free society. But that becomes a choiceless society, not a free society.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

The C students run the world.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place that it leads.

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.