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