Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-Flannery O'Connor -From quotationspage.com
US Author (1925-1964)
"If anything characterizes the 21st century, it's our inability to restrain ourselves for the benefit of other people. The cellphone talker thinks his rights go above that of people around him, and the jammer thinks his are the more important rights." -James Katz, director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University. From NYTIMES Quotation of the day
"I thought it was pretty good, but athletes don’t think about history when making history. They think about what they’re doing, and that’s how it gets done." NADIA COMANECI, the Romanian gymnast, on the routine that won her a perfect score at the 1976 Olympics. - From NYTIMES Quotation of the day.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. - Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.- Vaclav Havel
Can't lives on Won't Street - Ed Hallowell
"The right art," cried the Master, "us purposeless, aimless! The more obstinat!tely you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede." - Eugene Herrigel
In front of difficulties, only those who give up are real failures. - Edison
It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise! - Nancy Thayer, writer
It is like archers. If they start out competing, they'll never become marksmen. It is only long after practice, with no thought of winning or losing, that they can hit the target. Same with the study of the way. If even a single thought of winning or losing appears, ou will be chained by winning and losing. - Ying-An.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals - Orkut.com :-)
Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure.- Portuguese Proverb
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. Minna Antrim
If you ever find yourself being too hard on yourself for academic purposes or otherwise - this riddle always cheers me up
Know what they call the guy who graduated last in his class from med school?
- A Doctor