The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness -- has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

You foul, lying, evil little cockroach!

J.K. Rowling

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'

Florence Scovel Shinn

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Oscar Wilde

Taste is tiring like good company.

Francis Picabia

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair, Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline, Remember me to one who lives there. She once was a true love of mine.

Bob Dylan

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valery

A cemetery is the only place where people don't try to keep up with the Joneses.

Source Unknown

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Samuel Butler

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Paulo Coelho

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson

It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.

Wally Amos