quotes for rooms

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. ~Anais Nin



I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. ~Ruth Bernhard



A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst. ~Shelley Berman



The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Phrase: a brief, apt, and cogent expression; a word or group of words forming a unit and conveying meaning.



Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry. ~Author Unknown



You know it's time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves. ~Quoted in The Cockle Bur



To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. ~Friedrich Nietzsche



The cruelest lies are often told in silence. ~Adlai Stevenson



The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton



Cats come and go without ever leaving. ~Martha Curtis



What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb



The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ~William Shakespeare



I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird



Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ~Bennett Cerf



Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne



May is a pious fraud of the almanac. ~James R. Lowell



Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ~Katharine Hepburn



Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton