Lee Simonson Famous Quotes
"Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian."
Lee Simonson Quotations
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin D Roosevelt
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
Cicero
"Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss"
Nikos Kazantzakis
"Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pt, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes."
S J Perelman
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it
Henry Miller
"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"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 Deep Thoughts
Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
Richard von Weizscker
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch--what makes you go beyond the norm.
David L Boren
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo