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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

—Mercedes McCambridge

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

—Alexander Humboldt

There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how its emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.

—Jane Goodall

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.

—Gary Allan

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

—Larry Niven

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

—James Joyce

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

—Jimmy Dean

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

—Unknown

There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

—Matsuo Basho

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

—Thomas Hobbes

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

—Stephen Hawking

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

—Dennis Miller

I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

—Michael J. Fox

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom…

—Bell Hooks

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

—Dianne Houston