"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." -
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"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -
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"Today, alas, without heroes, we must make do with celebrities." -
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"The day is coming when a single carrot freshly observed will set off a revolution." -
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“Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.” -
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"I wish I owned half of that dog."
"Why?" somebody asked.
"Because I would kill my half."
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"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." -
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“How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!” -
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"Never underestimate the wisdom of a kid who tells you he thinks he's about to throw up." -
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." -
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"Be gentle to yourself and to each other today. If it's not a heart in a cooler, then it's just not that big of a deal."
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"I want to hear you, not your voice." -
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"I lov typos." -
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If a man is given a million dollars, he will spend it in a day. If a man earns a million dollars he will spend it more wisely. -
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"We versus Them. No such thing. There’s only We. “We” includes every messed up human on the planet (and if there happen to be any on the space station or in a space shuttle, they’re included too.) Every human who needs to be connected to God. That’s ALL of us! So, some are further along than others. Big deal. There’s no Them. We are Them. Humans. Needy humans." -
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"Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous." -
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"If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place." -
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"A fence sets men together, not apart." -
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"...just as any bird serves as a sign for any idea. Noah's dove, Macbeth's rooks, Horace's swans, Omar Khayyam's pigeons, Theocritus's nightingale, Count Fosco's canaries--they are no longer birds but usages of birds...I wonder if there ever was a moment whan a cardinal outside my window sat there in blazing splendour signifying nothing." -
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"Let's have a round of applause for love!" -
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"In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime
Finding out just where that is." -
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"There's safety in sandwiches." -
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"There's a fine line between unfolding and unraveling." -
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"I'm not young enough to know everything." -
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"I call all times soon." -
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"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that ONLY A FEW PEOPLE ARE AWAKE, AND THEY LIVE IN A STATE OF CONSTANT TOTAL AMAZEMENT." -
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"Everything is a miracle. And if there is anything that is not a miracle, the fact that it works without a miracle is miraculous." -
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"That’s why I love everybody who picks up a guitar, whether they play in the honky tonk, or just sit around at home. It’s like a fingerprint, every time they pick it up. Everybody’s got their own individual approach." -
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"The garden is one of two great metaphors for humanity. The other, of course, is the river." -
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"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." -
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -
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"Dreams can't get you anywhere unless you actually get up and do something about it." -
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"I bet nobody will ever quote me." -
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"He knew that she was created to be protected, and that he was created to protect her." -
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"How from age to age the art of painting continually declines and deteriorates when painters have no other standard than work already done: The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard...the Romans...they continually imitated each other, and from age to age their art steadily declined." -
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"If you can't stand behind our soldiers, try standing in front of them for a while." -
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"Food is art." -
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"I don't have a pet, but if I did, I'd name him 'Peeve'." -
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“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” -
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“Bathrooms make me want to sing.” -
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"Uh-oh, a spider bit my tooth!" -
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“Some people think a tent is just a tent. But it’s not.” -
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“If you’re gonna make waves, at least make ‘em big enough to surf on.” -
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“I’ve had zebra before. It made me think about horses, and how good they might taste.” -
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“If I have to drown I hope it’s in chocolate milk.” -
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“When Mr. Rogers died, he was my screen saver for like a month.” -
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