Favorite Quotes
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
- Umberto Eco
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
- Harvey Mackay
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A great storyteller is never just a sort of out-of-work actor who has nothing else to do. He is somebody for whom storytelling is a vocation, a vocation that is related to his search through life. It is an act of devotion for him. Now, that doesn´t make him tell a story in any pretentious or holy way. But it means that in the moment of telling, he is listening, with all that he has in him, to the overtones of the story, rather than stopping at the face value of the tale.
- Peter Brook
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
- Ken Keyes Jr.
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A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
- John F. Kennedy
