Quotes

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively.
"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." (Trina Paulus: Hope for the Flowers)

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. (Albert Einstein)

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance. (Johan von Goethe)

When people ask me why I do this, why I write such gross stuff, I tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. (Stephen King)

You see things as they are and ask 'why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'why not?' (George Bernard Shaw)

I saw an angel in the marble and I carved until I set him free. (Michaelangelo)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones that you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover! (Mark Twain)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." (Albert Einstein)

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see - when you fail to focus on your goals." (Source unknown.)

"When people ask me why I do this, why I write such gross stuff, I tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk." (Stephen King)

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." (Source unknown.)

"I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by." (Dilbert's School of Thoughts)

"I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow is not looking good either." (Dilbert's School of Thoughts)

"Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue." (Dilbert's School of Thoughts)

"On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key." (Dilbert's School of Thoughts)

"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with peanut butter." (Dilbert's School of Thoughts)

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience." (Dilbert's School of Thoughts)

"You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard." (Dilbert's School of Thoughts)

"Everybody is somebody else's weirdo." (Dilbert's School of Thoughts)

"Don't dwell on reality, it will only keep you from greatness" (Randall McBride Jr.)

"One of the things I've learned as an entertainer over the years is that you have to give the crowd what it wants, or there won't be a crowd!" (Tzudy Weir)

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
(Ben Franklin)

"To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time." (P G Wodehouse, the dedication to "The Heart of a Goof")

"The Good ended happily, and the Bad unhappily. That is what fiction means". (Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest" (Act 2) 1895)

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written". (Oscar Wilde, from preface to "The Picture of Dorian Grey" [1891])

"Life is not tried, it is merely survived, if you're standing outside the fire." (Garth Brooks)

"There is nothing wrong with writing - so long as you do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." (Robert Heinlein)

"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure." (Oliver Herford)

"Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one." (Robert Byrne)

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." (H.G. Wells)

"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good." (Samuel Johnson)

"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason." (Margaret Atwood)

"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read"." (Hilaire Belloc)

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