tragically unhip | quotes

"what other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?" {Gore Vidal}

"character develops itself in the stream of life." {Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}

great minds discuss ideas. average minds discuss events. small minds discuss people. {Eleanor Roosevelt}

"we cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." {Calvin Coolidge}

"i have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution." {Wernher von Braun}

"contemplation often makes life miserable. we should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live." {Nicolas Chamfort}

"if we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. we'd never have a friendship. we'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. well, that's nonsense. you've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." {Annie Dillard}

"i get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. sometimes this makes planning the day difficult." {E.B. White}

"and what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?" {Anita Loos}

"when you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. it is an impossibility. it is even a lie to pretend to. and yet this is exactly what most of us demand." {Anne Morrow Lindbergh}

"talk doesn't cook rice." {Chinese proverb}