Canned Quotes (page 814)

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• path
• every
• owned

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path. Joseph Campbell

• good
• book
• library

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.'No, and if he were I would burn my library. William Shakespeare

• winning
• party
• greatness

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. Dave Barry

• eyes
• pain
• writing

Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don’t write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can’t) Graham Greene

• humorous
• saying
• agreed

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing. Hunter S. Thompson

• learning
• imagination
• lesson learned

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all. John Irving

• men
• thinking
• mad men

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. Voltaire

• relationship
• life
• happy

Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. Nick Hornby

• saying
• you me
• old

There's an old saying in Tennessee? I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee? that says, fool me once, shame on? shame on you. Fool me? you can't get fooled again. George W. Bush

• children
• giving
• thing

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. Norman Douglas

• horse
• mind
• mindfulness

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse. Archibald MacLeish

• music
• sometimes
• musics

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left. Itzhak Perlman

• time
• mistake
• destiny

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. Winston Churchill

• life
• reasonable
• oneness

Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. Elizabeth Bowen

• drinking
• gets
• drinking problem

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink. Tom Waits