Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Djuna Barnes

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

Steven Wright

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Aesop

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Alice Meynell

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Italian Proverb

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

David Icke

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Anne Lamott

She sounds very beautiful and mysterious. I say this because you told me she is beautiful, and little else, leaving the rest to mystery, and thereby making her very mysterious.

Tom Alford

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Anne Dudley Bradstreet

The man that decided to change on the 12th hours died at the 11th.

Hlovate

If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is that you would probably find it reported somewhere the next morning in the New York Times. But when 300 Congressmen endorse the President's policy, the next morning it is apparently not considered news fit to print.

Spiro T. Agnew