Comic Strip Presents Beat Generation Quotes & Sayings

Oh, sweet cherry tree-
how lovely your blossoms are.
Spring brings joy to life. — A.K. White

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me. — Katherine Schwarzenegger

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency. — Anatoly Karpov

it ain't as hard as picking cotton — Wynton Marsalis

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. — Soren Kierkegaard

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all. — Angela Bassett

Nobody wants trouble,' said Chandni. 'Trouble just find us. — Philip Reeve

Whenever you hurt someone, you bring torment into your own life. — Debasish Mridha

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it? — Henry Miller

Professor Branestawm — Norman Hunter

The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does. — Thom Hartmann

Ah! Those silly songs make us lose our heads; and, believe me, never marry a woman who sings in the country, especially if she sings the song of Musette! — Guy De Maupassant

It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable. — Noah Hathaway

Short work of fiction by Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel." Imagine an infinite number of rooms, stacked atop one another, in which are stored not only all the books ever written but also all the books that ever will be, each of them in every dialect of every language known to mankind and of every language yet to be learned or formed in days to come. In addition, there is a book of the life of everyone who has ever lived or will live, and an infinite number of other volumes of all genres and purposes that could be imagined. There are books that make no sense and books that seem to make sense but perhaps do not. And the sheer quantity ensures that no one can read a sufficient percentage of it to arrive at an explanation of the library, life, or anything else. Bibi — Dean Koontz

Bryson was completely, wholeheartedly and irrevocably right as she embraced his analysis. Their imperfections made what they had perfect and Talitha knew that their contentment with each other, their relationship and themselves was something millions of people across the world would never experience. — Jill Thrussell