Quotable Quotes

"'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms."

- Colin Powell
 
"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."

- Jimi Hendrix
 
"Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure your hands are clean!"

- Bob Marley
 
"Queen Victoria said it, you know the blues got a soul"

- Muddy Waters 'The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll'
 
As Ben Franklin said:
In wine there is wisdom,
In beer there is freedom,
In water there is bacteria.
 
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

The incomparable PG Wodehouse.
 
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.


We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.




- Albert Einstein
 
"I want to be clear that the United States is not in the business, in Egypt, of choosing winners and losers, even if we could, which, of course, we cannot,"

- Hillary Clinton, in Egypt, July 2012


 
"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: 'It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.'"

― Jim Jarmusch
 
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

- Michael Jordon
 
"I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others."

- Amy Winehouse
 
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"Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool."

- Mark Twain
 
"If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any."

- Oscar Wilde, in England, handcuffed and placed outside in the driving rain, waiting to be transported to prison.
 

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