A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Phyllis Diller
- Phyllis Diller
Continue....
"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."
~ Rosa Parks
to the very end...
You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.
-Brenda Ueland, writer (1891-1985)
...are not fed
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and 34th president (1890-1969)
Popular Vs Good Work
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
-Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (18 Oct 1865-1946)
Right mix
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
-Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (1915-2005)
not becoming a human being?
Someone is Hindu, someone is Muslim, someone is Christian /
Everyone is hell-bent on not becoming a human being.
-Nida Fazli, poet (1938-2016)
Everyone is hell-bent on not becoming a human being.
-Nida Fazli, poet (1938-2016)
Happy Birthday R.K. Narayan
You become a writer by writing. It is a yoga.
-R.K. Narayan, novelist (10 Oct 1906-2001)
Special quality
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
mighty continent...
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
- Christopher Columbus
- Christopher Columbus
...being logical
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
-Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)
-Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)
Loneliness is an experience
Loneliness... is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
-Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)
-Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)
Ready to learn, but...
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill
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