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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Rita Mae Brown
    “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
    Rita Mae Brown

  • #3
    Janet Evanovich
    “My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.”
    Janet Evanovich

  • #4
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #5
    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #6
    Judy Schachner
    “My ears are too beeg for my head. My head ees too beeg for my body. I am not a Siamese cat ... I AM A CHIHUAHUA!"
    -- Skippyjon Jones (In his very best Spanish accent)
    Judy Schachner

  • #7
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #8
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #10
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #11
    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.”
    Guy Gavriel Kay

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #17
    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #20
    Albert Einstein
    “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #21
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.

  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “Don't Panic.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
    Neil Gaiman, American Gods

  • #24
    Bill Cosby
    “Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.”
    Bill Cosby

  • #25
    Patricia Polacco
    “Genius is neither learned nor acquired.
    It is knowing without experience.
    It is risking without fear of failure.
    It is perception without touch.
    It is understanding without research.
    It is certainty without proof.
    It is ability without practice.
    It is invention without limitations.
    It is imagination without boundaries.
    It is creativity without constraints.
    It is...extraordinary intelligence!”
    Patricia Polacco

  • #26
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #27
    David Ogilvy
    “On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.”
    David Ogilvy

  • #28
    Lee Wardlaw
    “Letmeoutletme
    outletmeoutletmeout.
    Wait--let me back in!
    ...
    Letmeinletme
    inletmeinletmein.
    Wait--let me back out!”
    Lee Wardlaw, Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku
    tags: cats, haiku

  • #29
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    “If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.”
    Lyndon B. Johnson

  • #31
    William Goldman
    “Inconceivable!"
    "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride



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