There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they’ll stop making it tomorrow; if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack. – Jodi Picoult
I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything. – Bo Jackson