Showing posts with label Andy Warhol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andy Warhol. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2010

There Can be No Courage Unless You’re Scared

Alice Roosevelt Longworth and her grand-daught...Image via Wikipedia

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. – Moliere

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes. – Andy Warhol

Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared. – Eddie Rickenbacker

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you. – Christian Morgenstern

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Flattery will get you anywhere. – Jane Russell



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Thursday, December 24, 2009

I’m a Deeply Superficial Person

Chekhov's grave, Novodevichy Cemetery, MoscowImage via Wikipedia

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position. – Leo Buscaglia

Man is what he believes. – Anton Chekhov

I’m a deeply superficial person. – Andy Warhol

In modern society the opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity. – Rollo May

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. – Lewis Mumford

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. – Ogden Nash

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. – P.J. O’Rourke


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