Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. It is a materialization, an incarnation of his inner world. Then he hopes to attract others into it. He hopes to impose his particular vision and share it with others. And when the second stage is not reached, the brave artist continues nevertheless. The few moments of communion with the world are worth the pain, for it is a world for others, an inheritance for others, a gift to others, in the end. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they spoil the lives of better and simpler people.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, "I'm in favor of privatization," or, "I'm deeply in favor of public ownership." I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another
"My life is a soap opera, but who gets the movie rights?"
On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd say... oh, somewhere in there.
"It's hard to tell whether he has an ace up his sleeve or if
the ace is missing from his deck altogether."
"The baby was so ugly they had to hang a pork chop around its
neck to get the dog to play with it."
"I'm on a seafood diet -- I see food and I eat it."
All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.
"I thought I saw a unicorn on the way over, but it was just a
horse with one of the horns broken off."
My mother was the travel agent for guilt trips.
"If I'm what I eat, I'm a chocolate chip cookie."
"I'm just a boy named 'su'..."
"The elder gods went to Suggoth and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Silence is the only virtue he has left.
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing
trivial."
Y'know how s'm people treat th'r body like a TEMPLE?
Well, I treat mine like 'n AMUSEMENT PARK... S'great...
"I used to be an idealist, but I got mugged by reality."
"Our parents were never our age."
"Oh, no, no... I'm not beautiful. Just very, very pretty."
"It wouldn't have been anything, even if it were gonna be a thing."
"If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need the cologne, now would I?"
"Overweight is when you step on your dog's tail and it dies."
"Don't let your mind wander -- it's too little to be let out alone."
"Say, you look pretty athletic. What say we put a pair of tennis
shoes on you and run you into the wall?"
"It's been real and it's been fun, but it hasn't been real fun."
"I ain't broke, but I'm badly bent."
"I used to be lost in the shuffle, now I just shuffle along with
the lost."
"I used to get high on life but lately I've built up a resistance."
"A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem."
"Of course it's the murder weapon. Who would frame someone with
a fake?"
The only easy way to tell a hamster from a gerbil is that the
gerbil has more dark meat.
"I'm not really for apathy, but I'm not against it either..."
"Who? Me? No, no, NO!! But I do sell rugs."
"My shampoo lasts longer than my relationships."
"It seems to me that your antenna doesn't bring in too many
stations anymore."
"I am not sure what this is, but an 'F' would only dignify it."
"East is east... and let's keep it that way."
"I've got one last thing to say before I go; give me back
all of my stuff."
"Everything I am today I owe to people, whom it is now
to late to punish."
"What I like most about myself is that I'm so understanding
when I mess things up."
"I never met a man I couldn't drink handsome."
"You want me to put *holes* in my ears and hang things from them?
How... tribal."
Talk about willing people... over half of them are willing to work
and the others are more than willing to watch them.
"If he learns from his mistakes, pretty soon he'll know everything."
Talent does what it can, genius what it must.
I do what I get paid to do.
I'm not bald -- I'm "hair challenged".
[I thought that was "differently haired". Ed.]
All I want is more than my fair share.
"It's a cold bowl of chili, when love don't work out."
Ludwig Boltzmann, who spend much of his life studying statistical
mechanics died in 1906 by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying
on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn.
-- Goodstein, States of Matter
"Sure, I turned down a drink once. Didn't understand the question."
"Do you smell something burning or is it me?"
-- Joan of Arc
"Every morning I read the obituaries; if my name's not there,
I go to work."
"I used to jog, but the ice kept bouncing out of my glass."
I opened Pandora's box, let the cat out of the bag and put the
ball in their court.
-- Hon. J. Hacker (The Ministry of Administrative Affairs)
Flash! Flash! I love you! ...but we only have fourteen hours to
save the earth!
"She's about as smart as bait."
"Lack of planning on your part doesn't consitute an emergency
on my part."
"He eats like a bird... five times his own weight each day."
"It was so cold last winter that I saw a lawyer with his
hands in his own pockets."
"He's on the same bus, but he's sure as hell got a different
ticket."
"It's been Monday all week today."
Money isn't everything, but at least it keeps the kids in touch.
How can I miss you if you won't go away?
"What women and psychologists call `dropping your armor', we call
"baring your neck."
"This is a one line proof... if we start sufficiently far to the
left."
"There may be no excuse for laziness, but I'm sure looking."
I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Pettys' car upside down,
then I thought 'One of us is in real trouble'.
-- Davey Allison, on a 150 m.p.h. crash
"I won't say he's untruthful, but his wife has to call the
dog for dinner."
I've heard about civil Engineers, but I've never met one.
"When she hauled ass, it took three trips."
"In the shopping mall of the mind, he's in the toy department."
"I'll listen to reason when it comes out on CD."
"I drive my car quietly, for it goes without saying."
"Unlucky? If I bought a pumpkin farm, they'd cancel Halloween."
"I may not be able to walk, but I drive from the sitting position."
"Like this rose, our love will wilt and die."
Some people have one of those days. I've had one of those lives.
I'm not a nerd -- I'm "socially challenged".
"Wouldn't it be wonderful if real life supported control-Z?"
"Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy."
"Even the Statue of Liberty shaves her pits."
If you're looking for trouble, I can offer you a wide selection.
"Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?"
"It's not the despair... I can stand the despair. It's the hope."
"I'd never marry a woman who didn't like pizza... I might play
golf with her, but I wouldn't marry her!"
I love your outfit, does it come in your size?
"What do you mean, you had the dog fixed? Just what made you
think he was broken!"
"I haven't come far enough, and don't call me baby."
"If you keep an open mind people will throw a lot of garbage in it."
"I don't think they could put him in a mental hospital. On the
other hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out."
"I sprinkled some baking powder over a couple of potatoes, but it
didn't work."
"A child of 5 could understand this! Fetch me a child of 5."
The forest may be quiet, but that doesn't mean
the snakes have gone away.
"I've always wanted to work in the Federal Mint. And then go on
strike. To make less money."
Sacred cows make great hamburgers.
"It's sort of a threat, you see. I've never been very good at
them myself, but I'm told they can be very effective."
"I used to go to UCLA, but then my Dad got a job."
If it's too loud, you're too old.
"I only touch base with reality on an as-needed basis!"
"I tried buying a goat instead of a lawn tractor; had to return
it though. Couldn't figure out a way to connect the snow blower."
"You're so dumb you don't even have wisdom teeth."