Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georgia O'Keeffe

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Gerald R. Ford

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.

Gilda Radner

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

Gilda Radner

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Hart Crane

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

Hank Ketcham

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

Hanna Rosin

Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.

Frank Zappa

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Frank Zappa

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Frank Zappa

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

Frank Zappa

Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

Frank Zappa

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Fred Perry

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

Fred Hoyle

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Fred Rogers

Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . .

Fred Rogers

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

Frank Herbert

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

Frank Herbert

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Frank Herbert

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Frank Herbert

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

Frank Herbert

We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.