Tuesday, 8 December 2009

quotes 8 dec '09

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
           -- Mae West

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
           -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
           -- Philip Guedalla


I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
           -- Roger Moore

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
           -- Anonymous

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
           -- Jack London
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
           -- Floyd Dell

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
           -- Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
           -- George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act 2

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