Suzanne Oliver > Suzanne's Quotes

“If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you.

Willie Nelson”
― Willie Nelson

“I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.”
― Townes Van Zandt

“Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“WINE! Because these problems aren’t going to forget THEMSELVES!”
― Comic Strip Mama

“I've heard that men are like fine wine. They begin as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.”
― Jill Shalvis, Get a Clue

“There is truth in wine, but you never see it listed in the ingredients on the label”
― Josh Stern

“I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't!”
― Tanya Masse

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
― Will Rogers

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.”
― Lauren Myracle

“I've had great success being a total idiot. ”
― Jerry Lewis

“Even multitasking, that prized feat of modern-day office warriors, turns out to be a myth. Scientists now know that the brain is incapable of paying attention to two things at the same time. What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“My tent doesn’t look like much but, as an estate agent might say, “It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2

“Cooking and eating food outdoors makes it taste infinitely better than the same meal prepared and consumed indoors.”
― Fennel Hudson, Fine Things: Fennel's Journal No. 8

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich, A White Bird Flying

“The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

“Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich

“There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.”
― Bess Streeter Aldrich, A Lantern in Her Hand

“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
― Robert Frost

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
― Carl Sagan

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
― Carl Sagan

“Haiku

Critical thinking
is a necessary tool
to survive today.”
― Sanjo Jendayi