You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.
Chinese Proverb
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
Peter Kropotkin
Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
William Golding, Rough Magic Lec
A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Pablo Neruda, Memoirs, ch. 11, 1
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
Dorothy Parker
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
Dorothy Thompson, The Courage To
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.
George Washington
Did St Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Rebecca West, This Real Night
Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
Evan Davis
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.
Sarah Bernhardt, The Art of the
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B. R. Ambedkar
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat...
Sarah Bernhardt
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Lillian Hellman, Watch on the Rh
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Ivor Novello
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody
At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.
Ethan Hawke
Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
Joseph Conrad, Marlow, in Lord J
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Pablo Picasso, Quoted in: Jaime
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound, Guide to Kulchur, pt
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
Jean Rostand, Carnets d'un Biolo
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.
Thomas Hobbes
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dori
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Address
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated... To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
Ellen Glasgow
I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.
January Jones
There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have.
Henri AlbanFournier, Liberspropo
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
Sarah Bernhardt, The Memoirs of
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren Buffett
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst, Love, Guilt & the
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
James A. Froude
Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.
P. G. Wodehouse
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
Francis Bacon
So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
Tippi Hedren
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
Jerry Lewis
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich
Life begets life. Energy creates energy.It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient moments together. Now I cannot live apart from you...Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
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