Famous Quotes

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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface:

All art is quite useless.

Carol Burnett:

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Publilius Syrus:

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Apuleius:

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Orson Scott Card, Xenocide:

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer):

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Joseph Rickaby:

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

Henry Kissinger:

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Unknown:

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

Dalai Lama, (in exile) Associated Press, 5/14/01:

It is essential to know that to be a happy person, a happy family, a happy society, it is very crucial to have a good heart, that is very crucial. World peach must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just the absence of violence but the manifestation of human compassion.

E. Joseph Crossman:

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

Antonin Artaud:

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

George Santayana:

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Frank Thomas, Disney Animator, When asked to give advice to young animators:

Observe Everything.
Communicate Well.
Draw, Draw, Draw.

Author Unknown:

Catch your people doing something right and let them know you appreciate it.