Archive for April, 2007

James Thurber on Love

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.

- James Thurber

Will Rogers on Movies

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

- Will Rogers

Stanislaw Lec on Age

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

- Stanislaw Lec

Dion Boucicault on Time

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

- Dion Boucicault

Meg Whitman on Technology

What’s sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

- Meg Whitman

Delmore Schwartz on Time

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

- Delmore Schwartz

John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Margaret Smith on God & Religion

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said No.

- Margaret Smith

C. S. Lewis on Age

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

- C. S. Lewis

Mary Schmich on Movies

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people’s maps will be the same.

- Mary Schmich