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Dizzy Dean: The doctors X-rayed...

Dizzy Dean: The doctors X-rayed...

The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.

Source: After being hit on the head...

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Frederick Buechner: Pay mind to...

Frederick Buechner: Pay mind to...

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to...

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Lee Iacocca: The ability to...

Lee Iacocca: The ability to...

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Source: In The...

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Frederick Buechner: In his holy...

Frederick Buechner: In his holy...

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called...

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Jean-Paul Sartre: Everything has been...

Jean-Paul Sartre: Everything has been...

Everything has been figured out except how to live.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

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Marjorie Rosen: Women's films [in...

Marjorie Rosen: Women's films [in...

Women's films [in the fiftiesl became howto's on catching and keeping a man. Veneer. Appearance. Sex Appeal. Hollywood...

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The great body...

The great body...

The great body of managers ... spend their whole careers climbing up inside one great Leviathan, with little contact...

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If you want...

If you want...

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're...

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Benjamin Harrison: Great lives never...

Benjamin Harrison: Great lives never...

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: I thought I...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: I thought I...

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only...

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In America, journalism...

In America, journalism...

In America, journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of...

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Poetry is what...

Poetry is what...

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Source: In E. Anthony, O Rare Don...

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Christopher Isherwood: One should never...

Christopher Isherwood: One should never...

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

Source: In W.O.W....

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Peter De Vries: The difficulty with...

Peter De Vries: The difficulty with...

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality and must live with a...

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Wayne Gretzky: I skate to...

Wayne Gretzky: I skate to...

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Source: In...

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J Robert Oppenheimer: When you see...

J Robert Oppenheimer: When you see...

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only...

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Gerald Ford: I had a...

Gerald Ford: I had a...

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Strategy without tactics...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Strategy without tactics...

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before...

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Wayne Gretzky: The highest compliment...

Wayne Gretzky: The highest compliment...

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog...

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I think the...

I think the...

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

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