I’m cleaning up the study – hey, I cleaned up just six months ago, where did all this crap come from? – and I found a bundle of cards and signs that I had stuck up on the wall here. I have a long history of sticking things on walls, and that’s probably worth a journal post in itself. Not to mention a lengthy psychological treatise. But I digress. I like to collect quotes, the words and comments that slip out in our occasional moments of insight, and these two stick right out. Mainly because they’re on cards too big to fit in the envelope.
“There are three rules that must be followed if one is to write a successful novel. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are” – W Somerset Maugham.
“Being captured by the adequate, being captured by the obvious, both prevent the best of information” – Edward De Bono.
LostBoy1, 6 months ago
if you always do what you`ve always done..
you`ll always get what you`ve always got..
by…dunno
Gregoryno6, 6 months ago
Cleaning has a way of being educational, have you noticed? It wasn’t until I sorted the contents of my various file trays that I discovered I’m the owner of 15 DVDs.
Chanel2, 6 months ago
Don’t get me started on quotes…...my kids were brought up on many, as was I :)
lightsmith, 6 months ago
“To quote another is but to steal their wisdom. Or to make things up”.
(i made that up)
queenykups, 6 months ago
here’s one for ya “harshness must be among one’s habits, if one is to be happy and cheerful among nothing but hard truths” Nietzsche. Now this could be misinterpreted of course … but only if one thinks with the frown! ps thanks for the etiology ‘wild and crazy man’ – didn’t know that . YES
DarwinsMishap, 6 months ago
You find DVD’s and quotes, I tend to find….things. Last time I worked through the collection of books, notebooks, manuals, ect I came across a shrunken head I thought the canine child got ahold of. Go figure-it was behind my anatomy book.
Though, I have collected quotes from some rather odd points in my life since I was ten or so-I’ve recently saved them from being regulated into fertilizer quite by accident and happy for it!
“I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I’ll be at the airport.” Charles M. Schultz
“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get yourself killed.” Bruce Springsteen
and one of my favorites from my files…
“If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.” George Carlin.