roommate quotes

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ~Agatha Christie



"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." ~Henry David Thoreau, 28 November 1858 journal entry



The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward



As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. ~John Ruskin



On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love



It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~Oscar Wilde



My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out. ~Ashleigh Brilliant



One hates an author that's all author. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Beppo"



Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life! ~Albert Einstein



Bring the past only if you are going to build from it. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada



Age is like the newest version of a software - it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had. ~Carrie Latet



The light of starry dreams can only be seen once we escape the blinding cities of disbelief. ~Shawn Purvis, ShawnPurvis.com



Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ~Learned Hand



Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. ~Henry Emerson Fosdick



There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. ~Maria Edgeworth



You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda



How can you put on a meaningful drama when, every fifteen minutes, proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? ~Rod Serling, quoted in Submitted for Your Approval, Public Broadcasting Station, 1995



Enough is as good as a feast. ~English Proverb



The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby. ~Ashley Montague



The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. ~William Gibson