I'll Still Be Here.
...and over our heads
will float the bluebird,
singing of beautiful and
impossible things,
of things that are lovely
and that never happened,
of things that are not
and that should be.
Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius,
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001),
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland,
It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.
Randy K. Milholland,
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862 {my favorite book}
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
Frances Moore Lappe
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde
will float the bluebird,
singing of beautiful and
impossible things,
of things that are lovely
and that never happened,
of things that are not
and that should be.
Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius,
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001),
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland,
It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.
Randy K. Milholland,
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862 {my favorite book}
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
William Dement
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
Frances Moore Lappe
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde