Archive for June, 2009

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.~ Fred A. Allen
Any time you got nothing to do–and lots of time to do it–come on up.~ Mae West
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. ~Alice Walker
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~Voltaire
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn’t be done.~ Traditional Proverb
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed. ~ George Carlin
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can. ~ Sydney Smith
It is the man who has done nothing that says nothing can be done.~ Author Unknown
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.~ Gertrude Stein
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it. ~ Lord Acton
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. ~ Edmund Burke
Nothing can be done except little by little.~ Charles Baudelaire
Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.~ Publilius Syrus
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.~ Helen Keller
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. ~Jean Cocteau
Nothing is interesting if you’re not interested. ~Helen MacInness
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.~ James Matthew Barrie
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn’t be done.~ Sam Ewing
Pile up too many tomorrows and you’ll find that you’ve collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. ~ The Music Man
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.~ Lloyd Jones
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.~ Mary Wilson Little
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ~ Publius Terentius Afer
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.~ Elbert Hubbard
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. ~Dr. Seuss
We can do nothing without prayer. ~ E.M. Bounds
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired. ~ Pablo Picasso
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.~ Author Unknown
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.~ Samuel Butler

• All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.~ Author Unknown
• All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.~ Author Unknown
• A lot of what acting is, is paying attention.~ Robert Redford
• A lot of what acting is paying attention.~ Nancy Reagan
• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.~ Andrew Carnegie
• Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.~ Andy Warhol
• Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.~ William John Bennett
• I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle
• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.~ Susan Sontag
• If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.~ Samuel Butler
• If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.~ Tom Peters
• I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
• Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.~ Susan M. Dodd
• No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.~ John Holt
• Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~ Eileen Elias Freeman
• Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.~ Antisthenes
• Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them…as you make the effort.~ Og Mandino
• Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been created in honor of a critic.~ Jean Sibelius
• People don’t pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.~ Florence Griffith-Joyner
• People will teach you how to sell them if you’ll pay attention to the messages they send you.~ Author Unknown
• Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.~ Deepak Chopra
• Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset
• The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.~ Philip Crosby
• The bad things in life open your eyes to the good things you weren’t paying attention to before.~ Author Unnown
• The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan
• The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.~ Thomas J. Peters
• To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself… ~ W. H. Auden
• You can’t pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it’s… very important to ignore the negative.~ Jerry Rubin
• You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.~ Paulo Coelho
• You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond

• A clever doctor never treats himself.~ Chinese Proverb
• A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.~ Chinese Proverb
• A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.~ Israel Zangwill
• Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.~ Russian Proverb
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.~ Thomas Carlyle
• Cleverness is not wisdom.~ Euripides
• Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
• Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
• Don’t be so clever; cleverer ones than you are in jail.~ Russian Proverb
• Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.~ George Bernard Shaw
• God is clever, but not dishonest.~ Albert Einstein
• I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.~ John Peel
• It’s good to be clever, but not to show it.~ French Proverb
• It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil, too.~ Euripides
• No man is clever enough to know all the evil that he does.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.~ Cesare Pavese
• One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.~ William J. Durant
• The advice of a clever woman can ruin a strong town.~ Chinese Proverb
• The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge.~ American Proverb
• There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!~ Rudyard Kipling
• To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Too clever is stupid.~ German Proverb
• What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.~ Terence
• When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double.~ Yiddish Proverb
• Words are like the spider’s web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever.~ Malagasy Proverb
• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.~ Naguib Mahfouz
• You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are.~ Author Unknown

• Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.~ Phyllis Diller
• Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.~ Cyril Connolly
• Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don’t know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it.~ Christine Huppert
• Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.~ Wilson Mizner
• Being nice is one of many bridges on the road to Happiness.~  Donna A. Favors
• Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie!” till you can find a rock.~ Wynn Catlin
• Even the devil’s grandmother was a nice girl when she was young.~ German Proverb
• He may be a very nice man. But I haven’t got the time to figure that out. ~ James Baldwin
• It’s nice being young, but it’s nothing I could maintain over a long period of time.~ Cindy Smallwood
• If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.~ Haim Ginott
• It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.~ John Cassis
• I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.~ Shirley MacLaine
• Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.~ Allan Beck
• Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.~ W.N. Rieger
• Nice words are free, so choose ones that please another’s ears.~ Vietnamese Proverb
• Not all nice things are dear, but those that are dear are nice.~ Yiddish Proverb
• The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.~  George Harrison
• The ugliest life is better than the nicest death.~ Yiddish Proverb
• Too nice can cost a lot of money.~ Yiddish Proverb
• When a woman behaves like a man why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?~ Dame Edith Evans
• When you’re nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.~ Jack Canfield
• With nice appearance people want to be deceived.~ German Proverb
• You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.  ~ Garrison Keillor

• I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

• The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

• The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
  In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

• I used to dream
  I used to glance beyond the stars
  Now I don’t know where we are
  although I know we’ve drifted far
  What about yesterday
  What about the seas
  The heavens are falling down
  I can’t even breathe
  What about the bleeding Earth
  Can’t we feel its wounds
  What about nature’s worth?
  It’s our planet’s womb

• I wake up from dreams and go “Wow, put this down on paper.” The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face . .

• Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There’s a movie theater.

• If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

• And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

• Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It’s very charming. It’s very sweet. It’s what the whole world should do.

• I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

• I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.