Last Month December Quotes & Sayings

I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience. — W. Somerset Maugham

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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to ... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry. — Emily Dickinson

More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers. — Jay Conrad Levinson

'9/11' came out of a swamp of hatred created by us. — George Galloway

So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out. — Cees Nooteboom

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything. — Mark Twain

Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March. — Jen Lancaster

Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. — Robert Haven Schauffler

The simplest things give me ideas. — Joan Miro

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died. — Clive Sinclair

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics. — Lara St. John

Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise. — Barbara Kingsolver

December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come. — Fennel Hudson

For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature of 38.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the three-month period of December 1999 through February 2000 was the warmest winter season in the last 105 years in the contiguous 48 states, the scientists said. That mark slightly surpassed the previous record of 37.8 degrees, set a year ago. — William K. Stevens

The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak. — Terence McKenna