Wsmr Quotes & Sayings

It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success. — Dale Carnegie

I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I was a geeky kid, and the camera was a way in high school for me to have some power. Flying was, too, I guess. — Michael Light

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful. — Malcolm McLaren

There is no need to be more - you are enough. Everybody is enough. — Rajneesh

All things considered, I'd rather have monkeys," Kishan shouted.
I shivered. "Tell you what. We'll rent King Kong and The Birds. Then you can decide."
He yelled as he ran from a swooping bird, "Are you asking me on a date? Because if you are, it will definitely give me more incentive to come out of this alive."
"Whatever works"
"You're on. — Colleen Houck

I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out. — Anthony Hopkins

The Constitution doesn't mention rain. — Joseph Brodsky

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains. — Horace Mann

Time lost is time lost. It's gone forever. Some people tell themselves that they will work twice as hard tomorrow to make up for what they did not do today. People should always do their best. If they work twice as hard tomorrow, then they should have also worked twice as hard today. That would have been their best. — John Wooden

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth — John Ford

Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language. — Charles Scribner IV

What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament? — Herman Melville

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain. — Jim Crace