Misattributed Tom Bodett Quotes & Sayings

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. — George Washington Burnap

Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play. — Julia Cameron

It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own. — W.E.B. Du Bois

A friend of ours encountered this problem with his home-built computer long ago. He wrote a BIOS that used a magic value in a particular memory location to determine whether a reset was a cold reboot or a warm reboot. After a while the machine refused to boot after power-up because the memory had learned the magic value, and the boot process therefore treated every reset as a warm reboot. As this did not initialize the proper variables, the boot process failed.
The solution in his case was to swap some memory chips around, scrambling the magic value that the SRAM had learned. For us, it was a lesson to remember: memory retains more data than you think. — Niels Ferguson

Fate's book, but my italics. — Don Paterson

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family — Jane Smiley

Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim. — Aristotle.

Dada demonstrated that a society that had lost respect was no longer in a position to demand that the artist adhere to its aesthetic and ideological values. The bourgeois idea of beauty had become ridiculous. Poetry was now abstract and based on sound. Rather than focusing on representation, painters now worked with their material for its own sake in terms of its colour, form and structure. The element of chance was treated as a creative process, that freed the artist from the alienation of conditioning. — Marc Dachy

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered. — Josh Billings

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon. — Meat Loaf

Never underestimate the sacrifices you will make for love . . . — Catherine Lowell

Dude, are you kidding? You're kinda annoying, but you're probably the only person on Earth who always thinks about other people first. I don't care what shape you are ... you're totally my sister now. — Brian K. Vaughan

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. — Carlos Fuentes