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Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.
L. B. Walton
Brothers? Oh, I hate brothers. My older brother just doesn't know when to die, and my younger brothers seem to do nothing but.
Oscar Wilde
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction -- prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
Ambrose Bierce
Well, the fact is that one cannot retrace one's steps, and the steps one has taken greatly influence the future.
Vincent van Gogh
Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
Ed Parker
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
Meg Cabot
The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Arthur Honegger
If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
Ignazio Silone
Moments of extreme terror bring back the gestures of our youth.
Dean Koontz
A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse.
Stephen Dooley, Jr.
Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.
Zach Braff
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
If you choose not to live in a cluster, uh, dorm...
Jim Zelenka
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Bill Vaughan
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
Albert Einstein
