Quote for the Day

[Nearly Sane]

Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?

Amelia Earhart

[Nearly Sane]

"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."

H L Mencken

[Nearly Sane]

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

Elias Canetti

[Nearly Sane]

A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.

Gracie Allen

[Nearly Sane]

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

Shirley Williams

[Nearly Sane]

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Beatrix Potter

[Nearly Sane]

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

Stanley Kunitz

[Nearly Sane]

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Emily Bronte

[Nearly Sane]

How do we get from electrons to elections and from protons to presidents?

John Searle

[Nearly Sane]

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

Maria Mitchell

[Nearly Sane]

Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

Myrna Loy

[Nearly Sane]

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Maggie Kuhn

[Nearly Sane]

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

[Aruntraveller]

When you state we are too big, too small, too old, too ugly, too mannish, too irrelevant blah, blah, blah, do bear in mind we hold no ambition to be some random splutter’s wank-standard and neither a role model for the puddle-deep.

Alison Moyet on being a woman (Twitter today)
 
I keep reading "random splutter's wank-standard" and then giggling fairly uncontrollably.

[Nearly Sane]

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

Conrad Aiken

[Nearly Sane]

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

Inez Milholland

[Nearly Sane]

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

Garrison Keillor

[Aruntraveller]

We've probably had this before but it is appropriate:

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

Isaac Asimov

[Nearly Sane]

No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Esther Williams

[Nearly Sane]

What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.

Jean Piaget

[Nearly Sane]

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Jorge Amado

[Nearly Sane]

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

Steve Wozniak

[Nearly Sane]

He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

William Goldman

[Nearly Sane]

He was the patron saint of quality footwear.

David St Hubbins

[Nearly Sane]

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

Lina Wertmuller