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"A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
38 people liked it

"Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding."
— Stephen King

tags: books, guns
138 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,612 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,222 people liked it

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour
1,976 people liked it

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer"
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, wit
1,399 people liked it

"The Guide says that there is an art to flying,” said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams

tags: flight, flying, hg2g, humor
1,182 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
8,575 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,674 people liked it

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
— Oscar Levant

tags: genius, humor, insanity
1,618 people liked it

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
— Orson Welles

tags: food, humor
673 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,130 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,505 people liked it

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women
3,704 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
2,975 people liked it

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

tags: writing
473 people liked it

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."
— Jack Handey

tags: handley, jack, quotes, shoes, walk
213 people liked it

"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car."
— Jack Handey

112 people liked it

"If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope he likes enchiladas, because that's what he's getting."
— Jack Handey

53 people liked it

"I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what? They never find him. And you know why they never find him? It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid."
— Jack Handey

54 people liked it

"I was sad, because I had no shoes.

Until I met a man that had no feet.

So, I took his shoes, cuz hey, he wan't using them!" "
— Jack Handey

tags: humor
49 people liked it

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."
— Jack Handey

31 people liked it

"To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?" you can say, "Sorry, got these sacks.'"
— Jack Handey

tags: humor
41 people liked it

"If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy."
— Jack Handey

32 people liked it

"There's a world that we know nothing about, that we can only imagine. And that is the world of books."
— Jack Handey

21 people liked it

"Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

tags: deep, handey, patriotic, patriotism, thoughts
16 people liked it

"Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears me, because I am beautiful"
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

tags: humor, snl
15 people liked it

"The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into the car - I forget what kind it was - and drive and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees there. The smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever sport we played. I remember a bigger, older guy we called "Dad." We'd eat some stuff, or not, and then I think we went home. I guess some things never leave you."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

6 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,207 people liked it

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: anti-christian, christ, christianity, christians, jesus
914 people liked it

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
— Mahatma Gandhi (GANDHI: An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth)

tags: conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
1,749 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,829 people liked it

"Where there is love there is life."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: life, love
1,083 people liked it

"God has no religion."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, religion
511 people liked it

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
444 people liked it

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
344 people liked it

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness
329 people liked it

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
253 people liked it

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals
237 people liked it

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
192 people liked it

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: honesty, justice, truth
160 people liked it

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: inspiration
184 people liked it

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bread, food, god, humanity, hunger, poverty, religion
132 people liked it

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: evil, violence
122 people liked it

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. "
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, difference, significance
100 people liked it

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
— Mahatma Gandhi

107 people liked it

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: enemies, friends, friendship, religion
106 people liked it

"(Asked what he thought of Western civilization) 'I think it would be a good idea.'"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: civilization, eastern, philosophy, society, western
75 people liked it

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: faith, humanity, ocean
85 people liked it

"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, man, need
81 people liked it

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