| Other quotes
(in no particular order): "I know that the human being and the fish can coexist."
George W. Bush
"Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow."
P.T. Barnum
"I hate quotations."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
Carl G. Jung
"I may disagree with what you say but I will defend to
the death your right to say it."
Voltaire
"If you don't use your head [when you gather
what you need to take to class] you have to use your feet."
Sister Virginia Brinks
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Goethe
"Being rude is not glamorous, original, daring, or
funny. It's just rude."
Miss Manners
"Rudeness is still rudeness when it is inspired by
--and intended to punish-- somebody else's rudeness."
Miss Manners
"Don't be rude, or Miss Manners will tie your hair in a
knot [like hers]."
Aileen Patton
"As intellectuals became academics, they had no need to
write in a public prose; they did not, and finally they could not."
Russell Jacoby
"When everything seems to be going against you,
remember that an airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
Henry Ford
"When the apple is ripe, it will fall"
Irish proverb
"Don't forget to breathe!"
Amy Stephens (Kevin's yoga teacher)
"Don't forget to breathe!"
Victoria Carmichael Jareo (Kevin's voice teacher)
"Don't forget to breathe!"
Dr. Daniel Kiddy (Kevin's podiatrist, during a
cortisone injection in the Kevin's heel)
"Oh, HEEL!"
Kevin (see preceding item)
"I believe this world is in a great measure what we
choose to make it"
P.T. Barnum (underline is Barnum's)
"To be playful and serious at the same time is
possible, in fact it defines the ideal mental condition."
John Dewey
"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Erica Jong
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work .
. . I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is
left I buy food and clothes"
Erasmus
"Don't just do something, sit there!"
Jon Kabat-Zinn in Wherever You Go, There You Are
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."
Henry David Thoreau in Walden
"We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good."
P.T. Barnum
"If your mind is not clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life."
Wu-Men
"Time is what keeps everything from happening at
once."
The Flying Karamazov Brothers
"A pawn is the most important piece on the
chessboard --to a pawn"
Isaac Asimov
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