Famous Firework Quotes & Sayings

Life is a series of lessons. Crises can be seen as the homework. They aren't there to defeat us but to help us grow - to graduate us into the next stage of life. — Karen Casey

I get Twitter, and think it's a great way to keep it in touch, but I don't do it a lot. I hate reading when people tweet about what you're eating or who they are out with, but it's a nice way to keep in touch with people. — Tristan MacManus

One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation. — Len Elmore

I got the idea in my head - and I could not get it out - that college was just one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven's sake. What's the difference whether the treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? I think that knowledge - when it's knowledge for knowledge's sake, anyway - is the worst of all. The least excusable certainly. I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while - just once in a while - there was some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! — J.D. Salinger

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. — Fred Allen

A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self. — Kilroy J. Oldster

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again. — Zygmunt Bauman

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. — Napoleon Bonaparte

All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself. — Henry Rollins

She had a new bracelet on, stacked with emeralds brighter than her eyes. I hate rich people. — Helen Oyeyemi

Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand! — Robert E. Howard

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening "outside," just by changing the contents of consciousness. We all know individuals who can transform hopeless situations into challenges to be overcome, just through the force of their personalities. This ability to persevere despite obstacles and setbacks is the quality people most admire in others, and justly so; it is probably the most important trait not only for succeeding in life, but for enjoying it as well. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I don't debate where there is no debate. I'm smart. You're stupid. Debate over. — J'son M. Lee

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. — Don Marquis

We hide behind our assumptions and preconceptions as if they were fortresses - shutting people out. I love to witness the fall of a preconception; the way it renders you naked — Karen Hitchcock