31-Dec-1996
Being "normal" really means sharing the same abnormalities as the group of people with whom you usually associate.

- Dale Miller

A 1997 New Year's Resolution for me was to add a "quote of the day" to my home page. It will be interesting to see how long I can continue to find things which strike my fancy to put here.

I have attempted to attribute these quotations whenever possible. If I have incorrectly identified one, please let me know.

Check the sidebar for earlier quotes.

1-Jan-2010
With confidence, you have won before you have started.

- Marcus Garvey

2-Jan-2010
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

- Vincent Van Gogh

3-Jan-2010
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

- Andy Warhol

4-Jan-2010
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.

- Richard Schickel

5-Jan-2010
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

- Philip James Bailey

6-Jan-2010
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

- Josh Billings

7-Jan-2010
Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

- Kathie Lee Gifford

8-Jan-2010
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

- Rita Rudner

9-Jan-2010
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

- Ambrose Bierce

10-Jan-2010
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

11-Jan-2010
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

- Lao Tzu

12-Jan-2010
Courage is grace under pressure.

- Ernest Hemingway

13-Jan-2010
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

- Orson Welles

14-Jan-2010
I can, therefore I am.

- Simone Weil

15-Jan-2010
Don't fight the problem, decide it.

- George C. Marshall

16-Jan-2010
It was either be an artist, or be insane.

- William Shockley

17-Jan-2010
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

- John Ruskin

18-Jan-2010
Pleasure is nature's test, her sign of approval.

- Oscar Wilde

19-Jan-2010
The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

- James Agate

20-Jan-2010
The extreme always seems to make an impression.

- Heathers

21-Jan-2010
For forms of government, let fools contest... what e're's best administered, is best.

- Alexander Pope

22-Jan-2010
Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism.

- Bernard J. Hibbits

23-Jan-2010
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

- George Bernard Shaw

24-Jan-2010
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

- Fyodor Dostoyevski

25-Jan-2010
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

- Benjamin Disraeli

26-Jan-2010
The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

- Peter De Vries

27-Jan-2010
Freedom's just another world for nothing left to lose.

- Janis Joplin

28-Jan-2010
Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.

- Roy Adzak

29-Jan-2010
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

- Richard J. Needham

30-Jan-2010
Laws are made for us; we are not made for the laws.

- William Milonoff

31-Jan-2010
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

1-Feb-2010
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

- Albert Camus

2-Feb-2010
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

- Doug Larson

3-Feb-2010
I see it's "Cat Attempts To Destroy House Through Kinetic Energy Release" o'clock again.

- Fade Manley

4-Feb-2010
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

- John Updike

5-Feb-2010
Love is a great beautifier.

- Louisa May Alcott

6-Feb-2010
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

7-Feb-2010
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

- Rita Rudner

8-Feb-2010
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

- Robert E. Lee

9-Feb-2010
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

- Gustave Flaubert

10-Feb-2010
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

- William Shakespeare

11-Feb-2010
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

- Fred Allen

12-Feb-2010
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

- Lord Byron

13-Feb-2010
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

14-Feb-2010
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

- Vince Lombardi

15-Feb-2010
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

- Toni Morrison

16-Feb-2010
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

- Dennis Rodman

17-Feb-2010
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

- Ella Maillart

18-Feb-2010
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

- Sophocles

19-Feb-2010
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

- Steven Wright

20-Feb-2010
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind, if a servant, sometimes deaf.

- Thomas Fuller

21-Feb-2010
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

- Alexander Clark

22-Feb-2010
Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

- Feodor Dostoyevsky

23-Feb-2010
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.

- Cervantes

24-Feb-2010
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

- Benjamin Disraeli

25-Feb-2010
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

- Steven Wright

26-Feb-2010
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

- Walt Whitman

27-Feb-2010
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

- Robert Schumann

28-Feb-2010
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

- Josh Billings

1-Mar-2010
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

- Woody Allen

2-Mar-2010
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

- George Bernard Shaw

3-Mar-2010
I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

- Tommy Bolin

4-Mar-2010
This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

- Dan Quayle

5-Mar-2010
Form follows function.

- Louis Sullivan

6-Mar-2010
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

- Mary Pickford

7-Mar-2010
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

- George Bernard Shaw

8-Mar-2010
Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

9-Mar-2010
Man is by nature a political animal.

- Aristotle