Can an afternoon revert? ~Carrie Latet
An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ~Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955
My mom is literally a part of me. You can't say that about many people except relatives, and organ donors. ~Carrie Latet
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Robert Brault
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. ~Emma Goldman
Does age poison us, or do we poison age? ~Astrid Alauda
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. ~Linda Ellerbee
You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. ~Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ~Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay, Machiavelli
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play. ~Charlotte Davis Kasl, Finding Joy, 1994
One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up. ~Lemony Snicket
We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust." Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. ~Arthur Hoppe, 1963
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. ~Michel de Montaigne
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours. ~John Milton
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anais Nin
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development. ~Author Unknown
The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~Peter Drucker
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. ~Thomas Edison
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. ~Latin Proverb
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. ~Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951
