Use Quotes - Page 175

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

I used to take taekwondo and made it to brown belt.

To have a developed intellect is always helpful if one can enlighten it from above and turn it to a divine use.

I cant believe anybody would celebrate a holiday where a jolly prowler breaks into your house and leaves gifts.

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

The time for arguing about the powers the people want is over. It's time now to use the powers that we have.

I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.

You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.