Unbitted Quotes & Sayings

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. — Bill Watterson

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. — Bruce Barton

I have disassociated myself from that book. — Uta Hagen

Tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you call love to be a sect or scion. — William Shakespeare

It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible. — Alison Krauss

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. — E. M. Forster

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces. — James Agate

In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes. — Tom Robbins

But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion ... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will. — William Shakespeare

If you follow anything far enough in the universe, it will eventually lead to light. — Frederick Lenz

When she shouted, the gulls hidden by the dune buckshot the low clouds. — Lauren Groff

It's great to be great, but its greater to be human. — Will Rogers