tongue twisters poems

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall. ~John Boorman, Money into Light, 1985



If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world. ~J.K. Rowling, "Horcruxes," Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005



Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. ~Joe Garagiola



Opportunity is a bird that never perches. ~Claude McDonald



Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. ~Abraham Lincoln



The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain



May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5



Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. ~Bill Gates



To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ~Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942



I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ~Noel Coward, 1956



Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity - a very challenging and exciting thought for a mother. ~Rose Kennedy



Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. ~M.C. Escher



Art gallery? Who needs it? Look up at the swirling silver-lined clouds in the magnificent blue sky or at the silently blazing stars at midnight. How could indoor art be any more masterfully created than God's museum of nature? ~Grey Livingston



Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes. ~Jules Renard



What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits... ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ~Robert Brault



Junk mail, junk food, our society is full of junk living, period. ~Carrie Latet



Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide



Silence is also speech. ~Proverb