walt disney quotes on dreams
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ~Arnold Palmer
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~Thomas Henry Huxley
The Occidental snobbery which is invading us, the gunboats, rapid-fire guns, long-range rifles, explosives... what else? Everything which makes death collective, administrative and bureaucratic - all the filth of your progress, in fact - is destroying, little by little, our beautiful traditions of the past. ~"The Garden," Chapter 6
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. ~Samuel Butler
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ~Anatole France
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ~Dave Barry
Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask "What the hell is wrong with the projector?" and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time. ~Colin Wilson
A canter is a cure for every evil. ~Benjamin Disraeli
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. ~James Bryce
Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian
Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward
Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer. ~John Pierpont Morgan
What mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. ~Thomas Carlyle
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. ~Mae West
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. ~Henry Louis Mencken, The American Language
No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers. ~Author Unknown
A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world. ~Charles and Ann Morse
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