September 30th
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
— Anna Quindlen
September 29th
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
— Alfred Hitchcock, in SIMON ROSE'S CLASSIC FILM GUIDE (1995)
September 28th
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
— John A. Locke
September 27th
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
— Barbara Kingsolver
September 26th
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
— Elie Wiesel
September 25th
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
— Samuel Johnson
September 24th
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
— Rudyard Kipling
September 23rd
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
— James A. Garfield
September 22nd
Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
— Samuel Butler
September 21st
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
September 20th
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
— Alexander Graham Bell
September 19th
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
— Woody Allen
September 18th
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
— Aldous Huxley, MUSIC AT NIGHT (1931)
September 17th
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
— John Cage
September 16th
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
— Carl Sandburg, INCIDENTALS (1907)
September 15th
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
— Andre Gide
September 14th
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
— Christopher Morley
September 13th
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
September 12th
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
— Elbert Hubbard
September 11th
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
— Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"
September 10th
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
— Miguel de Cervantes
September 9th
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
— Jerry Seinfeld
September 8th
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
— A. Sachs
September 7th
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
— Mark Twain
September 6th
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
— Bill Dodds
September 5th
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
— Gerry Spence, HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME
September 4th
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
— Cecil B. DeMille
September 3rd
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
— John J. Plomp
September 2nd
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
September 1st
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
— Whitney Young
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