Life with Bright and Shiny Objects: April 2012

Monday, April 9, 2012

"A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls."

--Coco Chanel

Yes. A quote rivaled only by Elizabeth Taylor, who said,

"Big girls need big diamonds."

This I Believe

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

-- Albert Einstein

I love sleep. My life has the tendency of falling apart when I'm awake, you know?

-- Ernest Hemingway

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

-- Paul Sweeney

And all I loved, I loved alone.

-- Edgar Allan Poe

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today

-- James Dean

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

-- Og Mandino

Big girls need big diamonds.

-- Elizabeth Taylor

We are the makers of music and the dreamers of dreams

-- Willy Wonka

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

-- Maya Angelou

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

-- Plato

How often do we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy?

-- Paul Sweeney

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

-- Benjamin Franklin

It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

-- Oscar Wilde

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

-- Walt Disney

Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

-- Winston Churchill

Women are meant to be loved, not understood.

-- Oscar Wilde

Monday, April 9, 2012

Truer words were never spoken