I am sitting in the cafe being very busy and important ...

[apocalypsos]

... if by "busy," you mean, "staring at an empty file wishing the story could fall out of my brain onto the screen," and if by "important," you mean, "I'm the only one in the cafe and I'm already one of the favored regulars." Heh.

So here, since I'm sitting in Quotes (yes, that's the cafe's name, HI I LOVE YOU WEE CAFE), have one of my favorites:

When I get a little money, I buy books;
and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
~ Desiderius Erasmus 1466-1536 ~

And also this one, because it's so me:

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
~ Rita Mae Brown ~

Okay, your turn! Gimme your favorite quotes. Maybe they'll help crack my brain open. :)

Comments

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure where this one comes from originally, but it's probably the best one I know: The story is told that before his death, Rabbi Zusya said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses? Why were you not David? Why were you not Abraham?' No. In the world to come they will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?'"

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

I have Cafe Envy(tm) now. There was an adorable one not far from our last rental house in Houston that I was just settling into when we moved to north Texas. Phoo.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I seriously need to come here just to read one of these days. I keep coming in with a notebook or a manuscript in need of editing and it's more like work that way. (Granted, my favorite kind of work, but still.)

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

I just love this quote:

“Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.” ~ Henry Miller

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

You and me both. I had great places to go in Boston and in New York but there's nothing really accessible to me in NoVA/DC. (They exist, but driving 45 minutes or more in DC traffic really isn't worth it.)

[denorios.livejournal.com]

I love that Erasmus quote. Sums up my life quite adequately.

I've also always been partial to:

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
- Cicero

It's so true. Moving into my new flat, it didn't feel like home until my books were there with me.

[prairiedaun.livejournal.com]

At the risk of being that girl who only ever talks about knitting...

Knit on, with confidence and hope, through all crises. -Elizabeth Zimmerman

I love it.

I LOVE quotes.

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz

"Peace of mind is the currency we use to purchase truth." - Unknown

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details." - Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." - Mark Twain

"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it." J. Robert Oppenheimer

[opportunemoment.livejournal.com]

Rather silly, but still...

'She was found in the barn, paralysed with fear - she may have seen something!' - old Doctor Who (I can't remember which but it might have been Four.)

[elbiesee.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of my favorite Will Rogers quote this morning: "If you live life right, death is a joke as far as fear is concerned."

I still like Piers Anthony's "Critic is a six-letter word for a four-letter concept."

[elucreh.livejournal.com]

I can't remember who said it, but "Friends are people who see through you and still enjoy the view" is one of my favorites.

And E.L. Konigsburg says that "Good explanations are like bathing suits: meant to reveal everything by covering only what is necessary" and "Don't seek great reviews from small minds. They have neither the character nor the vocabulary for them."

One more

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

Not sure how I forgot this one:

"The greater the intellect; the greater the need for play." - Spock. *GRIN*

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

Dim drums throbbing, in the hills half heard,
Where only on a nameless throne a crownless prince has stirred,
Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall,
The last knight of Europe takes weapons from the wall...

Courtesy of G K Chesterton's Lepanto, which my mother used to read to us when I was too small to read for myself.

[lyonie17.livejournal.com]

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." R. W. Emerson

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." Cicero

BTW, I'm over here snuggling my apocalyptothon assignment!

[telaryn.livejournal.com]

"Perspective - use it or lose it. If you've turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that."

"Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place."

"If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats."

"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."

All from Richard Bach's "Illusions". There's hundreds more - the book is epic with them - but these are some of my favorites.

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

"Now is the time to say something profound....nothing comes to mind, let's do it."
Jack O'Neill.

[kopernik.livejournal.com]

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes. - Federico Fellini

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house. - Maria Callas

There’s just some people you don’t hit with a pie and that’s all there is to it. - Buster Keaton

lurker here

[rattyfleef.livejournal.com]

Kinda late, but:

I caught a falling star. It cut my hands to pieces.
--duVivier

Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read!
- Groucho Marx


Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.

Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

[meret.livejournal.com]

If ignorance is bliss, why are so many people unhappy? -- Author Unknown