Regina Hunter > Regina's Quotes

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
― Tom Peters

“He who thinks little errs much…”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The knowledge of all things is possible”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
― Garrison Keillor

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“When in doubt, look intelligent.”
― Garrison Keillor

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.”
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
― Amy Hempel

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

“Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
― Christa Wolf, Kassandra

“The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...”
― Stephen King

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
― George Burns

“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
― Theodor W. Adorno