The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. ~David and Leigh Eddings
In the end, poverty, putridity and pestilence; work, wealth and worry; health, happiness and hell, all simmer down into village problems. ~Martin H. Fischer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy. ~Uvavnuk
Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that's even newer. I don't even like old cars. I mean they don't even interest me. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Fils: used to distinguish a son from his father when they have the same given name.
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. ~Laurence Olivier
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~Henri Matisse
My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. ~Max Eastman
You can never plan the future by the past. ~Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"
The reason for much matrimony is patrimony. ~Ogden Nash
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. ~Jack Handey
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. ~E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ~Florence King
Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here. ~John L. Swigert, Jr., Apollo 13 command module pilot, 13 April 1970 Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? ~Author Unknown
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ~Proverbs 15:17
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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