Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Popular quotes
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Sun Tzu
(-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Translation by Lionel Giles
Source: The Art of War, Chapter IV · Disposition of the Army
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
Viktor E. Frankl
(1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
Source: book Man's Search For Meaning
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
Rabindranath Tagore
(1861–1941) Bengali polymath
“Tolkien's dead. J. K. Rowling said no. Philip Pullman couldn't make it. Hi, I'm Terry Pratchett.”
Terry Pratchett
(1948–2015) English author
t-shirt worn by Pratchett at conventions https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/stephen-mcginty-sir-terry-pratchett-a-class-act-1-3718745 https://books.google.ca/books?id=n78kYbvUd_8C&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=%22tolkien%27s+dead%22+pratchett+shirt&source=bl&ots=uosL5-E7O9&sig=rMN8J7liwEBmaE92G4EWLunv2wk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBmL6nr-DbAhUB6YMKHd9XALoQ6AEIoAEwGQ#v=onepage&q=%22tolkien's%20dead%22%20pratchett%20shirt&f=false
Misc
“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.”
H.P. Lovecraft
(1890–1937) American author
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
(1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Life is short, but the years are long.”
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Helen Keller
(1880–1968) American author and political activist
Edward Everett Hale in a statement published in A Year of Beautiful Thoughts (1902) by Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough, p. 172; <!-- and perhaps as early as an edition of Ten Times One is Ten (1870) by Hale--> This has been misattributed to Keller in published works since at least 1980. Keller and Hale were good friends, and letters to Hale can be found in her youthful autobiography The Story of My Life (1902). In 1910 Keller dedicated her poem "The Song of the Stone Wall" to Hale who had died in 1909.
Misattributed
Variant: I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”
Frank Zappa
(1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
'Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church)
Roxy & Elsewhere (1974)
Variant: Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny
“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
Roald Dahl
(1916–1990) British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter
“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
Jack London
(1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist
"Getting into Print", first published in 1903 in The Editor magazine
Variant: You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Context: Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
Context: Fiction pays best of all and when it is of fair quality is more easily sold. A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration. Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible - if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.) Humour is the hardest to write, easiest to sell, and best rewarded... Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
Smith Wigglesworth
(1859–1947) British evangelist
Page 79
The Complete Story: A New Biography on the Apostle of Faith By Julian Wilson http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e2RWZpOHfmoC|Wigglesworth:
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
Thomas Jefferson
(1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Jane Goodall
(1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
Reported in Patti Denys, Mary Holmes, Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Animal Companions (1998), p. 106
Source: Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe
Jane Goodall
(1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist
"Chimpanzees - Bridging the Gap", in Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer, The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity (1996), p. 14
