Des Plaines Public Library Quotes & Sayings

A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there. — Steve Carell

When one is giving service for the advancement of humanity, when one is working without money and without price, with no hope of earthly reward, there comes a real, genuine joy into the human heart. — Heber J. Grant

Um, she's meaner than a bag full of squirrels and twice as nuts. — Sherry D. Ficklin

Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time. — Ann Burton

It's not a man's working hours that is important, it is how he spends his leisure time. — Marilynne Robinson

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it. — Rulon Gardner

Remember, the best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them, not from them. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

He let himself be led into the night, into the forest, into the blind secret wordless, thoughtless country. — Hermann Hesse

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog. — Edward Noyes Westcott

You always see the world, the way you are, not the way world is. — Swami Nithyananda

Mainline American Protestantism, as is often the case, plodded wearily along as if nothing had changed. Like an aging dowager, living in a decaying mansion on the edge of town, bankrupt and penniless, house decaying around her but acting as if her family still controlled the city, our theologians and church leaders continued to think and act as if we were in charge, as if the old arrangements were still valid. — Stanley Hauerwas

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather. — John Hartford

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975. — Jose Saramago

[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas ... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall, then you'll stagger back and see another opportunity that you wouldn't have seen otherwise." — Arthur Fry

I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were. — Rachel Sklar