STATUS QUOtes — 20200903

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”

— Margaret Thatcher —

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.” — David Foster Wallace

“Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.” — Johann von Goethe

“I started at the top and worked my way down.” — Orson Welles

“Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.” — Maria Bamford

 
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Quotes from David Foster Wallace, Johann von Goethe, Orson Welles and Maria Bamford that are poignant,witty, humorous, inspirational or thought provoking

STATUS QUOtes — 20181206

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.” — Noel Coward

“I always wanted a happy ending… Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” — Gilda Radner

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people; to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.” — Lauren Oliver

“I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.” — Orson Welles

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170827

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“It is completely unimportant… That is why it is so interesting.” — Agatha Christie

“Americans are funny about taxes: When we complain about them, we don’t moan that we are paying too much—we lament that others are paying too little.” — Kevin D. Williamson

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.” — Thucyclides

“Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.” — Orson Welles

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20150213

“To be prepared is half the victory.” — Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist

“He speaketh not, and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“You do your rebellions any way you can.” — Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.” — Erma Bombeck