coffeymuse’s most recent Quotables

“Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.”

Ninety-nine percent of the failures comes from people who have the habit of making excuses.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Rumack: Can you fly this plane, and land it?
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.

This is Frank Drebin, Police Squad. Throw down your guns, and come on out with your hands up. Or come on out, then throw down your guns, whichever way you wanna do it. Just remember the two key elements here: one, guns to be thrown down; two, come on out!

It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without [necessarily] accepting it.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I’d like to thank people who read and think and people who have made me think and read and those who think while reading and read while thinking, but you shouldn’t read while driving because that’s a safety issue.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don’t understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they’re there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it’s the other side that matters.

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

There’s no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there’s no excuse for boredom, ever.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.