You Can Quote Me
I’m always on the lookout for a good quote. Not only do I use them here at Loose Leaf, but I cut and paste them throughout “The Museletter,” the monthly local publication that I co-edit. I also used them in both my books, “The Jim and Dan Stories” and “Muses Like Moonlight.” I love the way a good quote can convey so much in such a condensed way. Today is Museletter Sunday (last Sunday of the month). Submissions are spread out all over my kitchen table waiting for me to make some order of them. Here is the quote I’m using for the July issue, just for the fun of it:
“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?” ~ James Thurber
And here is my current favorite, displayed on my refrigerator:
“The lie of the emperor is always believed before the truth of the peasant.” ~ unknown.
Do you have a good quote to share that I might add to my collection?
(Post to note: The idea for this entry came from Question of the Day)
June 26th, 2005 9:54 am
“Life is like an ice cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.”” — Charlie Brown
June 26th, 2005 11:17 am
I just make up my own quotes. It saves all that trouble of having to remember the real ones, and it guarantees that I’ll always have something appropriate to share. 🙂
Michele sent me.
June 26th, 2005 12:29 pm
I saw this on Indigo’s QOTD and I didn’t put mine, but it is by Jonathan Swift. “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him.” Makes sense really.
June 26th, 2005 1:27 pm
I love quotes. I use them and am inspired by them all the time. The first thing that popped into my head is from The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”
June 26th, 2005 4:13 pm
nice to find you here. Michele sent me.
wonderful words…oh how i love WORDS!!!
i’ll be back.
June 26th, 2005 4:23 pm
response to PS…
funny thing about my layout, is your browser isn’t maximized, it throws the posts below the lieft side bar… gotta fix that. thanks for the visit.
June 26th, 2005 9:07 pm
here’s mine:
“Why live on the edge when you can hang from it!”
June 26th, 2005 9:10 pm
I have quotes in my head all the time. I love “Sunbeams.” My own personally-spoken-by-me quote of the day: “Innuendo insinuated intentionally.” My favorite quote of the day by someone else: “And as for the truth, I think that we just pick a theory.” -Emily Saliers, 1/2 of The Indigo Girls. Or maybe: “No one enters this room without the dream of a common language.”
-Adrienne Rich
June 26th, 2005 9:16 pm
Oh, and I forgot bumper stickers! They are some of the best quotes around! A few I have on my car:
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”
“Buckle up: It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car.”
“Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
June 26th, 2005 9:58 pm
My current favorite:
“Life is a roller coaster. Try to eat a light lunch.” — David Schmaltz. Another favorite: “I know God promises not to give me more than I can handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.” — Mother Teresa
June 26th, 2005 10:26 pm
So many great quotes!! I’ll be using them. Thanks. Here’s another good one. “When the axe came into the forest, the tree said ‘he’s one of us.” Alice Walker.
And… Trees don’t grow on money either.” (gotta think about that one.)
June 26th, 2005 11:13 pm
My favorite, of course, is the tagline on my blog: “The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.” (Isak Dinesen) I have found that to be true in most circumstances.
I also like Gandi’s “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
June 27th, 2005 6:28 am
I’m way short on quotes this morning but I thoroughly enjoyed reading the post AND all the clever comments.
June 27th, 2005 8:45 am
I enjoy your blog with my coffee every morning. Thanks! Here’s a few faves:
“Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.” –H.L. Mencken
. . . “A fact is not a truth until you love it.” –John Keats
. . . “I lack the courage to renounce my fantasies, the caprices of the individual conscience. I love my errors. I do not want to renounce the delightful liberty to lose my way, to lose my self, to lose my soul.” –Anatole France
June 30th, 2005 10:23 am
I found this one on Jess’s page, and was delighted because I just saw the movie Garden State for the first time last week.
“We may not be as happy as you always dreamed we would be, but, for the first time let’s just allow ourselves to be whatever it is we are.” -Garden State