The people are unreal
The people are unreal.
The flowers are unreal, they don’t smell.
The food is unreal, it doesn’t taste of anything.
The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert.
- Ethel Barrymore -
Category: Random Quotes
We can catch buses and count
We can catch buses
and count our change and
cross the roads and talk real sentences.
But our innocence goes awfully deep,
and our discreditable secret is that we
don’t know anything at all, and our horrid
inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.
-Dylan Thomas -
October is a fine and dangerous season
October is a fine and dangerous season
in America…a wonderful time to begin anything at all.
You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
-Thomas Merton -
Helped are those
Helped are those
who create anything at all,
for they shall relive the thrill of
their own conception and realize a partnership
in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
-Alice Walker -
When the green woods laugh
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
-Lord -
There’s something intrinsically
There’s something intrinsically
therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide,
open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
- Charles Rosin -
If ever a man could have
If ever a man could have
felt the church to be unnecessary,
he was Jesus.
Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day.
It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath,
and he made many trips to the temple.
- R. Brokhoff -
You can make more friends
You can make more friends
in two months by becoming interested
in other people than you can in two years by
trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie -
The bravest thing you
The bravest thing you
can do when you are not brave is
to profess courage and act accordingly.
-Â Corra Harris -
At the present rate of progress
At the present rate of progress,
it is almost impossible to imagine any
technical feat that cannot be achieved – if it can be
achieved at all – within the next few hundred years.
- Arthur C. Clarke -