I thought we could use a thread featuring quotes that offered insight or inspiration. And since this is my thread, I am prohibiting religious guff.
I’m reading John Steinbeck’s East of Eden now, and last night I came across this little nugget: “No one who is young is ever going to be old.” This nicely sums up my own point of view during my wasted youth. Back then, I was convinced I had a million years ahead of me.
"Fools names like Fools faces, always found in public places " don’t know who said it!
“Anyone can oppose, it’s fun to be against things, but there comes a time when you have to start being for things as well.” from the film The Libertine
“Stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything” I am pretty sure it is in a song, but I don’t where it originated
“The blues isn’t about feeling better; it’s about making other people feel worse! And making a few bucks while you’re at it.” – Bleeding Gums Murphy, The Simpsons
"i"before “e” except after “c”
“Make memories you can live with.” Robert Knott
(Sidenote: East of Eden was one of the best things I had to read in high school. I actually bought a copy.)
I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary… I forget the third thing.
Maybe you’re thinking of this lyric from ‘Aaron Burr, Sir’ from ‘Hamilton’:
LAURENS:
Burr, the revolution’s imminent, What do you stall for?
HAMILTON:
If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for?
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The less you care, the happier you’ll be.
(generally applies to the work environment)
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Well, it is definitely from an early-90s Aaron Tippin country song.
“It won’t get better if you pick it.”
From Bull Durham:
“The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self awareness.”
“The better you look, the more you’ll see.”
I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads or tiny bodies. . . . And just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?
“Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try!”
—Homer J Simpson
“You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
—Alphonse Capone
“Old age is the most surprising thing that can happen to a man.”–Leon Trotsky, (although an ice pick through the head was not exactly on his to-happen-to-me-today list)
“A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.”
—Chuckles the Clown
“If I’d’a known what’s what, I’d’a gone in college.”
—Mickey Cohen