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Quotes from those born on December 25

When words are put together in fresh ways there is a pleasure-giving quality in language, which brings a release of endorphins.

~William Collins (1721)*

But all they want to do

Is tie the poem to a chair with rope

And torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose

To find out what it really means.

~William Collins

It means treasury, but it is just a place where words congregate with their relatives, a big park where hundreds of family reunions are always being held.

~William Collins

I would rather see words out on their own, away from their families and the warehouse of Roget wandering the world where they sometimes fall in love with a completely different word.

~William Collins

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

~William Collins

I want my mind to be a sail, susceptible to any breeze that might be blowing across the lake of consciousness.

~William Collins (1721)

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

~Quentin Crisp (1908)

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

~Isaac Newton (1642)

I know when I have a problem and have done all I can: thinking, figuring, planning, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence until something clicks and I feel a right answer.

~Conrad Hilton (1887)

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.

~Anwar Sadat (1918)

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

~Isaac Newton

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

~Isaac Newton

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

~Isaac Newton

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve. I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

~Clara Barton (1821)

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

~Rod Serling (1924)

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

~Quentin Crisp

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

~Quentin Crisp

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

~Quentin Crisp

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

~Cab Calloway (1907)

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

~Helena Rubinstein (1870)

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

~Anne Roiphe (1935)

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

~Quentin Crisp

I'm so lonely I don't even want to be with myself anymore.

~Dido (1971)

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

~Quentin Crisp

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

~Carlos Castenada (1925)

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

~Clara Barton

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

~Clara Barton

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.

~Quentin Crisp

Never get involved with someone who wants to change you.

~Quentin Crisp

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

~Quentin Crisp

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

~Quentin Crisp

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

~Quentin Crisp

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

~Quentin Crisp

Manners are love in a cool climate.

~Quentin Crisp

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

~Larry Csonka (1946)

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

~Carlos Castaneda

It's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth.

~Carlos Castaneda

It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me, I would shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.

~William Collins (1721)

But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,

barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window

in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.

She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,

offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

~William Collins

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

~Quentin Crisp (1908)

When coming to the end of an interview:

"You must stop this interview now as I have come to the end of my personality."

~Quentin Crisp

... now it was time to throw on a long scarf and make an exit, leaving it to someone else to close the door.

~William Collins

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

~Joe Gores (1937)

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Happy Birthday, MissMerry!!

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