ChewMouse's Favorite Quotes

2008-03-08T14:36:00.000-08:00

I have spread my dreams under your feet.

Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.

W. B. YEATS

2008-02-24T06:40:00.000-08:00

2008-02-24T06:26:00.000-08:00

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

--ELVIS PRESLEY

2008-02-24T06:24:00.000-08:00

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

--WOODY ALLEN

2008-02-24T06:20:00.000-08:00

If music be the food of love, play on.

--WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

2008-02-24T06:18:00.000-08:00

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

--RAY BRADBURY

2008-02-24T06:16:00.000-08:00

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

--ARISTOTLE

2008-02-24T06:13:00.000-08:00

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

--HANK AARON

2008-02-24T06:12:00.000-08:00

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.

There's also a negative side.

--HUNTER S. THOMPSON

2008-02-24T06:10:00.000-08:00

If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.

--HENRY DAVID THOREAU

2008-02-24T06:06:00.000-08:00

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

--E. B. WHITE

2008-02-24T06:03:00.000-08:00

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

--ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

2008-02-21T21:36:00.000-08:00

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

--ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN

2008-02-21T21:34:00.000-08:00

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

--MAHATMA GANDHI

2008-02-21T21:32:00.000-08:00

2008-02-21T21:29:00.000-08:00

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

--GEORGE SANTAYANA

2008-02-21T21:27:00.000-08:00

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

--GREG EVANS

2008-02-21T21:25:00.000-08:00

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

--H. L. MENCKEN

2008-02-21T21:23:00.000-08:00

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

--GEORGE BURNS

2008-02-21T21:22:00.002-08:00

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

--BILL COSBY

2008-02-21T21:22:00.001-08:00

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

--LAURENCE J. PETER

2008-02-21T21:20:00.000-08:00

What worries you masters you.

--HADDON W. ROBINSON

2008-02-21T21:16:00.000-08:00

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has!

--MARGARET MEAD

2008-02-21T21:15:00.001-08:00

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

--ROBERT FROST

2008-02-21T21:13:00.000-08:00

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

--LEO TOLSTOY

2008-02-21T02:10:00.000-08:00

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

--BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

2008-02-21T02:08:00.000-08:00

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

--MARYON PEARSON

2008-02-21T02:07:00.000-08:00

For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.

--BHAGAVAD GITA

2008-02-21T02:05:00.000-08:00

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

--BABYLONIAN TALMUD

2008-02-21T02:04:00.002-08:00

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

--GEORGE SANTAYANA

2008-02-21T02:04:00.001-08:00

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

--GORDON LIDDY

2008-02-21T02:02:00.000-08:00

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

--ANNA PAVLOVA

2008-02-21T02:01:00.001-08:00

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

--LOUIS HECTOR BERLOIZ

2008-02-19T01:10:00.000-08:00

I'm not afraid of dying.

I just don't want to be there when it happens.

--WOODY ALLEN

2008-02-19T00:45:00.000-08:00

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

--ANAIS NIN

2008-02-19T00:34:00.001-08:00

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

This sanctuary is a simple awareness of comfort, which can't be violated by the turmoil of events.

This place feels no trauma and stores no hurt.

It is the healing mental space that one seeks to find in meditation.

--HERMANN HESSE

2008-02-19T00:32:00.000-08:00

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

--MILTON BERLE

2008-02-19T00:31:00.001-08:00

A man's reach should exceed his grasp...or what's a heaven for?

--ROBERT BROWNING

2008-02-19T00:27:00.000-08:00

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make it a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

--BILLIE JEAN KING

2008-02-19T00:25:00.000-08:00

2008-02-19T00:20:00.001-08:00

If we did all we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.

--THOMAS EDISON

2008-02-19T00:18:00.000-08:00

Life is change. Growth is optional.

Choose wisely.

--KAREN KAISER CLARK

2008-02-19T00:14:00.000-08:00

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

--JAMES BALDWIN

2008-02-19T00:13:00.001-08:00

In the name of God, stop a moment, close your work, and look around you.

--LEO TOLSTOY

2008-02-18T22:56:00.000-08:00

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

--UNKNOWN

2008-02-18T22:53:00.000-08:00

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

--LAO-TZU

2007-12-10T18:03:00.000-08:00

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

--STEPHEN KING

2007-12-08T17:48:00.000-08:00

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

--CYRIL CONNOLLY

2007-12-07T17:47:00.000-08:00

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

--HENRY DAVID THOREAU

2007-12-06T17:39:00.000-08:00

Open your mouth and you’re wrong.

--ZEN SAYING

2007-12-05T17:38:00.000-08:00

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

--ALBERT EINSTEIN

2007-12-04T17:34:00.000-08:00

Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying, or lamentation—this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

--DŌGEN

2007-12-03T17:34:00.000-08:00

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

--MARIAN ANDERSON

2007-12-01T17:33:00.000-08:00

Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

--THOMAS WOLFE

2007-11-30T17:32:00.000-08:00

When hungry, eat your rice. When tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

--LIN-CHI

2007-11-29T17:31:00.000-08:00

As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

--PEACE PILGRIM

2007-11-28T17:30:00.000-08:00

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

--MARY CATHERINE BATESON

2007-11-27T17:27:00.000-08:00

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

--MAYA ANGELOU

2007-11-26T17:26:00.000-08:00

Who I really am keeps surprising me.

--NIKKI GIOVANNI

2007-11-25T18:32:00.000-08:00

2007-11-24T17:25:00.000-08:00

You will always exist in the universe in one form or another.

--SHUNRYU SUZUKI

2007-11-23T17:24:00.000-08:00

When you’ve got it, there’s no place for it but a poem.

--WU PEN

2007-11-22T17:23:00.000-08:00

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

--LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

2007-11-21T17:22:00.000-08:00

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

--MARVA COLLINS

2007-11-20T17:21:00.000-08:00

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

--LEONARDO DA VINCI

2007-11-19T17:15:00.000-08:00

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing.

--SARAH BERNHARDT

2007-11-18T17:12:00.000-08:00

2007-11-17T17:11:00.000-08:00

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.

--GEORGE BAKER

2007-11-16T17:10:00.000-08:00

You can't win them all -- but you can try.

--BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS

2007-11-15T17:08:00.000-08:00

We live in the present, we dream of the future, and we learn eternal truths from the past.

--CHIANG KAI-SHEK

2007-11-14T17:08:00.000-08:00

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world.

Sorrow is part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

--GEORGE ELIOT

2007-11-13T17:07:00.000-08:00

I don't measure America by its achievement, but by its potential.

--SHIRLEY CHISHOLM

2007-11-12T16:58:00.000-08:00

We boil at different degrees.

--RALPH WALDO EMERSON

2007-11-11T16:58:00.000-08:00

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

--JOAN BAEZ

2007-11-10T16:54:00.000-08:00

2007-11-09T16:53:00.000-08:00

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

--MARGARET MEAD

2007-11-08T16:52:00.000-08:00

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

--LUCILLE BALL

2007-11-07T16:52:00.000-08:00

You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her.

-- ADA LEVERSON

2007-11-06T16:51:00.000-08:00

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

--OSCAR WILDE

2007-11-05T16:50:00.000-08:00

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves.

Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.

--SHAKTI GAWAIN

2007-11-04T16:49:00.000-08:00

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

--MARY CATHERINE BATESON

2007-11-03T16:46:00.000-07:00

When I play from my mind, I get in trouble.

--STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

2007-11-01T16:22:00.000-07:00

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around her or her neck that says, "Make me feel important."

Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

--MARY KAY ASH