14 January 2011

to feel good

Went to a bar today where people had written things all over the walls. Got me thinking. Since the last few months whenever I hear a really nice quote i write it down, here's what i have so far.

"I speak with the same tongue old poets spoke with." - Kate Tempest

"The idiots are cocksure, the intelligent are full of doubt." -Bertrand Russell

"You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant." -Harlan Ellison

"Art for arts sake." -Theophile Gautier

"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." -Walter Pater

"They are not long, the days of wine and roses..." -Ernest Dowson

"You can have a cheap pen and some scrappy paper but write words on it that are worth five summers. Or more" - Some LCC graphics student

"We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Charles Dickens

"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." -Rosalynn Carter

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." -Marie Curie

"With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy? -Oscar Wilde

"Il faut tojours travailler." -Rodin

"Be mysterious. Be in love." -Alfred Jarry

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