Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: morning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. —Art Buchwald More about this quote Tags: world satire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. —Carl von Clausewitz More about this quote Tags: surprise secrecy speed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One fails forward toward success. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: success failure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Tags: humor children nature jokes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. —Toni Morrison More about this quote Tags: memory water Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. —Novalis More about this quote Tags: life meaning art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. —Peter Max More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. —Jackie Kennedy More about this quote Tags: perception animals speed camels elephants Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. —Jerome K. Jerome More about this quote Tags: blessing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder. —Charles Morgan More about this quote Tags: love God surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Absence - that common cure of love. —Lord Byron More about this quote Tags: love absence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When composer Igor Stravinsky was fifty-seven, he settled in the United States and a year later decided to apply for American citizenship. He made an appointment to see the appropriate official. At his first interview the official asked the famous composer his name. "Stra-vin-sky," he replied, speaking each syllable distinctly. "You could change it, you know," suggested the official. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: change USA names citizenship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So at last I was going to America! Really, really going, at last! The boundaries burst. The arch of heaven soared. A million suns shone out of every star. The winds rushed into outer space, roaring in my ears, "America! America! —Mary Antin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. —Franklin D. Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: USA revolution immigration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email