Quotes

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Elon Musk

I’m a believer in the power of knowledge and the ferocity of beauty, so from my point of view, your life is already artful—waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art

Toni Morrison

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feynman

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Thomas Wolfe

In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

Miroslav Volf

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.

Benjamin Franklin

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Walter Colton

St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great. The Emperor angrily demanded of him, “How dare you molest the seas?” To which the pirate replied, “How dare you molest the whole world? Because I do it with a small boat, I am called a pirate and a thief. You, with a great navy, molest the world and are called an emperor.”

St. Augustine thought the pirate’s answer was “elegant and excellent.”

Noam Chomsky

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.

Albert Camus, The Plague

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

Unknown

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Vladimir Lenin

My big dream back then was to buy an IBM Selectric. I still have that dream. I really ought to buy a word-processor. Half the cabbies at Rocky own computers. They tell me they can write failed novels ten times faster on a PC.

Gary Reilly

Eventually, everyone will be quarantined to their houses with no sports to watch

. . . and in nine months a boom of babies will be born

. . . and we will call them Coronials

Creative Talent Agency

Mosquitos be waking up from winter like . . .

“Where y’alls at?”

Please kindly go away, I’m introverting.

Beth Buelow

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S. Boroughs

I figure I’d have time alone with my thoughts. But it turns out I don’t have as many thoughts as you think.

Joey Tribbiani

I know how to cane chairs – how’s that for a useless skill? My mom once took a course and taught me how to do it when I was stuck at home sick with the flu. Now I’m all set if I ever decide to drop out of fashion and join an Amish community.

Michael Bastian

Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but story builders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

Amy Pascal

I’ve been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn’t need words to make ourselves understood. But people don’t love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn’t.

Albert Camus

Sentimentality – that’s what we call the sentiment we don’t share.

Graham Greene

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Graham Greene