William Oughtred Quotes & Sayings

The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we're lucky. — Ursula Nordstrom

I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret. — Bob Newhart

You don't see how ridiculous it is that your napkin standards exceed your dress-code standards for getting the mail? — Jewel E. Ann

Overmedication: We're killing ourselves. Degrading
often unseen & often unfelt
our kidneys, livers, vital organs. Until it's too late. And we croak. Kidney failure, heart failure, liver failure. We do it to ourselves — David R. Wommack

Words belong to each other, although, of course, only a great writer knows that the word incarnadine belongs to multitudinous seas. — Virginia Woolf

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. — June Jordan