Flore's Thoughts

Mark Twain:

- Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- Let us be thankful for fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes.
- Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Albert Einstein:

- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Robin Williams:

- We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
- Do you think God gets stoned? I think so… look at the platypus.
- Ah! So many pedestrians… so little time.
- Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.

Source: http://quotations.about.com/

“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is worth the trouble? Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. There are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing.”

– Miranda July (“The Shared Patio”, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”

– Miranda July (“Making Love in 2003″, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can’t see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”

– Miranda July (“Ten True Things”, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

“to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal

to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed

to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal

to be forgiven

to be loved

to be free”

– Sarah Kane