Quote that inspires you today...

[beansprout76]

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Leo Buscaglia

 

[MSTarot]

"Have the courage to write badly"

It was quoted by Mark Twain, but i believe Homer was probably a fan of it as well.

 

[beansprout76]

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

 

[Stella_Omega]

"It's not Tyrannosaurme or Tyrannosauryou, it's TyrannosaurUS."

-- My dear friend whom I like to call "Zim the brain"

 

[Handley_Page]

E = M*C^2
Einstein.

It's such a profound statement.

 

[4glory6]

I appreciated one going around Facebook now and quoted from Eric Parsons, whoever that is. "I was gonna post something that would tell you the difference between Hindus and Sikhs and Muslims but I realized that you don't need to know anything about somebody's religion to know that you shouldn't shoot them."

 

[Stella_Omega]

I appreciated one going around Facebook now and quoted from Eric Parsons, whoever that is. "I was gonna post something that would tell you the difference between Hindus and Sikhs and Muslims but I realized that you don't need to know anything about somebody's religion to know that you shouldn't shoot them."

So. True.

 

[WaywardandLost]

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

 

[WaywardandLost]

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

 

[Athalia]

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

Another quote from Poe (I think): "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion."

 

[WaywardandLost]

Another quote from Poe (I think): "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion."

Your right. Poe is my favorite writer. The funny thing is I almost used that quote from Poe that you put on your post.

 

[WaywardandLost]

“With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

 

[WaywardandLost]

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”― Edgar Allan Poe

 

[minigal]

Note to self:

RELAX!

You are enough
You do enough
You have enough

And even if you don't feel it or hear it, you are 'd

 

[Stella_Omega]

All will be cool and all will be cool and all manner of things will be cool.

-Julian of Norwich, paraphrased by me

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”― Edgar Allan Poe

Gives me the heebie-jeebies when I remember who his first wife was.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Gives me the heebie-jeebies when I remember who his first wife was.

I don't think I know this story...

 

[mynameisben]

Gives me the heebie-jeebies when I remember who his first wife was.

It's a damn good thing the heebie-jeebies isn't contagious. Just the thought of it gives me the heebie-jeebies.

D'oh!

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

I don't think I know this story...

He married his cousin, who was thirteen at the time (he was 24). Supposedly (or, rumor has it), the marriage was never consummated, but it's still just too much for me. Like I said, heebie-jeebies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Eliza_Clemm_Poe

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

“The city is man’s most consistent, and on the whole his most successful, attempt to remake the world he lives in more after his heart’s desire. But if the city is the world which man created, it is the world in which he is henceforth condemned to live. Thus indirectly, and without clear sense of the nature of his task, in making the city man has remade himself.” Robert Park (roughly)

 

[RodenAddison]

There is a muse, but he's not going to come fluttering down into your writing room and scatter creative fairy-dust all over your typewriter or computer station. He lives in the ground. He's a basement guy. You have to descend to his level, and once you get down there you have to furnish an apartment for him to live in. You have to do all the grunt labor, in other words, while the muse sits and smokes cigars and admires his bowling trophies and pretends to ignore you. . . . It's right that you should do all the work and burn all the midnight oil, because the guy with the cigar adn the little wings has got a bag of magic.

Stephen King - On Writing

 

[RodenAddison]

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Stephen King

 

[Balke7612]

Winston Churchill was accused of being drunk, his response to which was:

"Madam, you're ugly. But tomorrow I will be sober."

Churchill said a lot of funny stuff. His grandson was my MP when I lived in England, he shared all of his grandfather's girth and none of his wit.

Also Jello Biafra:

"The new world order reeks of dying empire odor and changing the channel wont make that go away. As the veneer of democracy fades away, as the world's down-sized until it explodes, as the shanty-towns piled behind the malls become visible, as the savages on the other side of the wall break through, as everybody from gun-crazy militias to anti-immigrant nazis to fundamentalist child-raping christians to gangsta rappers to community activists to working families just struggling to put food on the table, all mad at the same thing, your SUV; me, me, me, "mission accomplished", bring 'em on, buy more stuff, buy more stuff, fight terror, defend freedom so we can buy more stuff, false illusion of the world is going down, motherfucker. Walk off the job. Crime is beautiful. A prank a day keeps the dog-leash away. Quit your jobs. Burn down the malls. AAARRRGGHHHH"

I usually listen to that at work.

 

[Stella_Omega]

"She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky."
~Flannery O'Connor on Ayn Rand

 

[Athalia]

Churchill said a lot of funny stuff.

Dialogue between Churchill and Lady Astor (recalled from memory, so probably not entirely verbatim):

Lady Astor: Winston, you are a horrible man! If I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee!

Churchill: Madam, If I were your husband, I would drink it!