To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962 US movie actress (1908 - 1989) It has all been very interesting. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762 English letter author & poet (1689 - 1762) A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner US screenwriter (1876 - 1933) Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, 1973 Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927 US aviator (1897 - 1937) Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988 US author and social activist If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912 US essayist (1855 - 1950) There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915 US novelist (1873 - 1947) I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright US architect (1869 - 1959) |