QOTD: Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
Frank Zappa: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
“She is written in a foreign tongue.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Spent my way doing rock and roll
Jesus doesn't love me anymore
Don't do much of what I've been told
Jesus doesn't love me anymore
Dragonette
"You cannot travel the path until you become the Path yourself."
Gautama Budha
“Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?”
― H. Rider Haggard, She
@Lustig Andrei,
Wonderful stuff. Every budding writer should read Haggard.
I recall something about Churchill questioning Haggard regarding a passage in She. He caused Haggard to admit he did not know the meaning of the passage. I searched a bit for the exact story, but did not find it.
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
Paulo Coelho
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
― Frederick Douglass
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
- Joseph Addison
"I think it's a good idea. We ought to try it sometime"
William Faulkner when asked about Christianity
“I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
― Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
“As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.”
― Molly Ivins
“Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
- Jack Kerouac
"Learn by others' mistakes because you do not live long enough to make them all yourself."
Anonymous
“Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.”
― Muhammad Ali
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
Og Mandino
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
George Eliot
