“Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.” -Robert Benchley
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
― Thomas Paine
Found this in Goodreads quotes
“Give me liberty, or give me death.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Give yourself permission to be imperfect
Perfectionism kills creativity like nothing else. As creatives, we demand so much of ourselves and often end up feeling guilty for being unable to accomplish it. We become exhausted, frustrated, and discouraged. By giving yourself permission to be imperfect, you’re
creating an opportunity for your best work to be born.
- oops. lost the source.
"At any given time, the urge to sing 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' is just a whim away. A whim away, a whim away, a whim away." –unknown
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." –Andy Rooney
“I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.”
― George Burns
“To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air.”
― Thomas Paine
“When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.” Mark Twain.
"Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row." - Ray Bradbury
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
– G. B. Shaw
“Writing is like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.”
― Philip Roth
“The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.”
― Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” –Friedrich Nietzsche. It’s the anniversary of Woodstock 1969!!
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” –Elvis Presley, who died on this date.
