"For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs infull view."
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"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."
"I don’t like breakfast, because I like things fixed and slow. Let’s just take our relationship morning by morning."
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
"That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days.You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me than 'fair is fair.' Life isn't FAIR, Dean....Nothing is fair, EVER. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I need to help you because FAIR IS FAIR? Try, 'I need you to help me so I won't rip out your spine and beat you with it.' I MIGHT respond to that. MAYBE."
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
"Religion turned some folks belligerent."
"Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women."
"if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you."
"There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA,"though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk,"given our level of ignorance."
"What's up?"[asked Ford.]I don't know,"said Marvin, "I've never been there."
"I paint with shapes."
"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."
"I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last."-George from If We Kiss"
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."
"There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today."
"I had a second friend come over to my house, and do you know what I called her? A refill. If relationships aren’t drinkable, why do we thirst for them so much?"
"You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive."
"Although time seems to fly, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest. In each waking day, you will find scores of blessings and opportunities for positive change. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the unchangeable past or the indefinite future! Today is a new day!"
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
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