funny girl quotes

Jesus accepts you the way you are, but loves you too much to leave you that way. ~Lee Venden



Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks, 1508



Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul. ~Cass Gilbert



Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. ~Author Unknown



Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~John Leonard



Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ~E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist



Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune. ~Andrew Carnegie



Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it. ~Norman Douglas



Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile. ~Author Unknown



I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. ~Alanis Morissette, quoted in Reader's Digest, March 2000



Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done. ~Ernie Kovacs



Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ~Edward Young, Night Thoughts



Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies, 1928



The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. ~Tony Blair



There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer



The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. ~Vinton Cerf



All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. ~Bobby Knight, on reporters



To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved



Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski



A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ~Ouida