Author Topic: Quote for the Day (Read 60099 times)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #625 on:** January 14, 2024, 08:15:13 AM »

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Berthe Morisot

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #626 on:** January 15, 2024, 07:40:41 AM »

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

Captain Beefheart

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #627 on:** January 16, 2024, 07:10:38 AM »

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Robert W. Service

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #628 on:** January 17, 2024, 02:26:07 AM »

I have always believed that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Françoise Hardy

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #629 on:** January 18, 2024, 06:15:15 AM »

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

A. A. Milne

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #630 on:** January 19, 2024, 04:00:29 AM »

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Alexander Woollcott

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #631 on:** January 20, 2024, 03:54:53 AM »

The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another.

Buzz Aldrin

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #632 on:** January 21, 2024, 05:16:22 AM »

We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none.

Errol Barrow

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #633 on:** January 22, 2024, 03:06:31 AM »

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

George Balanchine

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #634 on:** January 23, 2024, 04:06:56 AM »

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

Derek Walcott

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #635 on:** January 24, 2024, 07:50:48 AM »

I don't mind being listed alphabetically.
I do mind being treated alphabetically.

Maria Tallchief

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #636 on:** January 24, 2024, 07:52:31 AM »

'The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.'

Andrea Dworkin

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #637 on:** January 25, 2024, 05:07:08 AM »

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

John Cooper Clarke

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #638 on:** January 26, 2024, 07:24:31 AM »

To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things.

Paula Rego

Gordon · « **Reply #639 on:** January 26, 2024, 07:36:05 AM »

'He is a fucking clown'

Nicola Sturgeon (about Boris Johnson).

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #640 on:** January 27, 2024, 03:10:59 AM »

Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.

Jerome Kern

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #641 on:** January 28, 2024, 01:59:59 AM »

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Colette

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #642 on:** January 29, 2024, 09:36:28 AM »

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Germaine Greer

Aruntraveller · « **Reply #643 on:** January 29, 2024, 04:26:39 PM »

"Female is real, and it's sex, and femininity is unreal, and it's gender.

For that to become the given identity of women is a profoundly disabling notion."

Germaine Greer (85 today)

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #644 on:** January 30, 2024, 12:44:48 AM »

Money is sad shit

Richard Brautigan

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #645 on:** January 31, 2024, 09:02:20 AM »

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Tallulah Bankhead

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #646 on:** February 01, 2024, 07:08:42 AM »

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

Muriel Spark

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #647 on:** February 02, 2024, 08:32:51 AM »

It gets tiring being a smartass.

Elaine Stritch

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #648 on:** February 03, 2024, 03:50:41 AM »

Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face. One had to admit that their god had gone a little too far with his little joke.

Lao She

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #649 on:** February 04, 2024, 06:25:47 AM »

Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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