To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
ANTON CHEKHOVLook at all the stars. You look up and you think, ‘God made all this and he remembered to make a little speck like me’. It’s kind of flattering, really.
More Wyatt Earp Quotes
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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
BEVERLY SILLS -
Simplicity and sexiness, that’s what people want. At a price that’s not outrageous.
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG -
You’re young and there’s still so much ahead. So much uncertainty and doubt. It keeps you up at night-this wild, restless feeling. But you don’t know how free you are. For this short, miraculous time, you have no one to answer to, nothing to lose. You belong wholly to yourself.
LANG LEAV -
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you’re my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?
CHET BAKER -
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
CHARLIE MUNGER -
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future.
ADOLF LOOS -
Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
DANIEL DENNETT -
What do I have to say no to in order to say yes to what I want the most.
EDGAR DOUCET -
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
BERNARD WILLIAMS -
I’ll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
O. HENRY -
When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else’s plan, the Boss showed up.
BERNIE SIEGEL -
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT -
Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
ALICIA KEYS -
…Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.
JACK KORNFIELD -
When I was on the Ryder Cup team and I surrounded myself with the other 11 guys and our captains, being in that locker room, it gave me an extra sense of confidence.
TONY FINAU