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Grateful Quotes — page 192 of 709
“To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.”
“Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.”
“I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.”
“The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it”
“The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.”
“The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.”
“White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.”
“Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.”
“We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes.”
“Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.”
“I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.”
“That best academy, a mother's knee.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.”
“It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.”
“Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.”
“It is better to give than receive- especially advice.”
“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.”
“God cures and the doctor sends the bill.”
“The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.”