quotes for memories

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience. ~Wilson Mizner



The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in. ~Bill Copeland



There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her crap. ~Author Unknown



One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb



Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain



There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. ~Philip G. Hamerton



Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown



Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. ~Jim Ryun



He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher



To decide is to walk facing forward with nary a crick in your neck from looking back at the crossroads. ~Betsy Canas Garmon



To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. ~Elwyn Brooks White



Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. ~J.J. Furnas



Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ~CoCo Chanel



If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. ~A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young



All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men. ~John Alfred Spender, The Comments of Bagshot



There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. ~Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954



Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. ~Jim Davis, "Garfield" (Please note: In its original context, this is NOT about vegetarianism)



We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. ~Dick Gregory