Penelope Fitzgerald Famous Quotes
"No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think."
"It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are."
Penelope Fitzgerald Quotations
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
Harold R McAlindon
"Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive and negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract."
Robin Green
Why not go out on a limb Isn't that where the fruit is
Frank Scully
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Sir Winston Churchill
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
Mae West
We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.
Anne Wilson Schaef
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement."
Norman Thomas