Any Quotes (page 3)

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• home
• head
• hanging

Any place I hang my head is home. Groucho Marx

• character
• excuses
• validated

Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character. Thomas S. Monson

• reading books
• experience
• sunlight

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience. C. S. Lewis

• work
• ideas
• idea

Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

• rejection
• lawyer
• firsts

Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected. John Grisham

• good
• strength
• art

Any first rate novel or story must have in it the strength of a dozen fairly good stories that have been sacrificed to it. A good workman can't be a cheap workman; he can't be stingy about wasting material, and he cannot compromise. Excerpt taken from On the Art of Fiction by Willa Cather circa 1920. Willa Cather

• love
• world
• loved

Any place you love is the world to you. Oscar Wilde

• forever
• parted
• knowingly

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know. Stephen King

• today
• money
• government

Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. Kurt Vonnegut

• family
• space
• evening

Any difficulties posed by lack of rooms, space or even beds should never be permitted to interfere with the demands of hospitality to family or friends. Something can always be contrived. Jane Austen

• waiting
• thinking
• historical

Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about. B. F. Skinner

• saying
• nice
• love

Any other vexations to report?" he asks."I love the word 'vexations.'"It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that."Just the usual ones," she says."How was the weekend?"Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You? Michael Cunningham

• eyes
• knowingly
• see

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand. Samuel Beckett

• money
• intelligent
• manly

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him. John Steinbeck

• importantly
• become
• connects

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. Umberto Eco