25 Random Thoughts...

I love quoteable quotes. And, I love non-quoteable quotes even more. You know, the ones that allows people to say something they couldn't possibly say themselves...under the cover of someone else's name...

Anyway, this week I thought I would share some random quotes from my collection with you. Enjoy!

1. “To be successful you have to be dumb enough to think you can change the world and smart enough to know how.” – Clint Borgen.

2. "Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.” - Goethe, 1749-1832

3. "Everyone should have an evil secret plan..." - Denis Leary

4. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” - Charles Darwin

5. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

6. "Anyone can become angry-that is easy, but to become angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way-that is not easy." - Aristotle

7. "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?” - Tom Shales

8. “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” – Gilda Radner

9. “No one dances sober, unless he is insane.” - Cicero

10. “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.” - Charlotte, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

11. "I believe in a reasonable amount of "right to bear arms". But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I'm every other kind of power, but I'm not a nuclear power." – Ted Turner

12. "I'm actually pale blue. It takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white." - Billy Connolly

13. “I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you take two negative points?” - Woody Allen

14. “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” - Sir Winston Churchill

15. “I don't intend to offend; I just offend with my intent.” - Anthrax, Sound of White Noise

16. “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

17. “I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.” - Katherine Cebrian

18. “If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is ‘God is crying.’ And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is ‘Probably because of something you did.’" – Jack Handey

19. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” — Apple Computer Inc.

20. "We've done a terrible thing."
"Yes, if only there was some magical liquid that could erase bad memories..."
- Alan and Charlie, in the bar, "Two and a Half Men"

21. “If you are completely buried in an avalanche, dig a small hole around you and spit in it. The saliva will fall down, giving you an idea of which direction is up. Dig up.” - A survival tip from the "Worst Case Scenario" calendar

22. "May you come to the attention of the authorities." - Ancient Chinese curse

23. "Laughter is the music of life.” - Sir William Osler

24. "My religion is very simple, my religion is kindness." - Dalai Lama

25. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds profound).