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“I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.”

Should Wells Important Culture Reading Hours Cities Study Conclusion Fascinating Japan Bottles Caps Analyzing Suitcases Shampoo

Book:Dave Barry Does Japan

Source: Dave Barry Does Japan

“It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.”

Wells Facts Form Brain Known Taken Groups Fine Well Known Consumed Tablets Large Groups Pez

Author:Dave Barry

“Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.”

Ifs Men Wells Individual Belief Absurd Isolation Nationalism Customs Dread Refuge Degrading

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.”

Ifs Wells Littles Important Matter Moments Reality Given Attention Activity Assuming Dimensions Concentration Unimportant Things That Matter Only Thing That Matters Unimportant Things

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”

Wells Self Use Creative Thousand Mercy Victim Accidents Presentation Actuality Creative Writers

Author:John Updike

“If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.”

Ifs Feels Wells Two Ideas Matter Character Situation Personality Comfortable Jokes Sticks Good Ideas Plastic Stereotype Ambiguity Ambiguous

Author:Bill Watterson

“If I say, 'Oh nice,' about seven times in the same show, things aren't going well.”

Ifs Wells Shows Nice Seven

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.”

“A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.”

Ifs Wells May Persons Self Literature Thousand Six Accounts Seven Biographies

Author:Virginia Woolf

“He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.”

Wells Speak Behinds Friends My Friends Behind My Back

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.”

Wells Evil Roots Monsters Covetousness

Book:Fruits of solitude ... New edition

Source: Fruits of solitude ... New edition

“It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.”

Feels Wells Modern Civilization Worthy Umbrella Badges Respectability Modern Civilization

Book:Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Third Edition

Source: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Third Edition

“Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?”

Wells Kind May Done Eye Answers Figures Painting Paint Drawing Wit Public Eye Catalogues Figure Painting

Book:the works of thomas hood

Source: the works of thomas hood

“There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.”

Mind Wells Book Hands Left Written Pages Enormous Well Written Left Hand Redundancy

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.”

Years Wells May Doe Song Race Flower Gratitude Seasons Mark Triumph Remembered Easter Monument Navigators Jubilation

Author:George Horace Lorimer

“You have to write badly in order to write well.”

Writing Wells Order

Author:William Faulkner

“If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.”

Ifs Men Wells Every Man Cows

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

Thinking Wells Children Mother Father Sin Virtue Written

Author:Charles Dickens

“The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.”

Wells Facts Judging Duty

Author:Ovid

“She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.”

Wells Husband Matrimony

Book:Ovid's Epistles. Translated into English verse by various authors. To which is prefixed the Life of Ovid

Source: Ovid's Epistles. Translated into English verse by various authors. To which is prefixed the Life of Ovid

“He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.”

Wells Obscurity

Author:Ovid

“It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.”

Wells Would Be Fighting Half Mankind Goes On Brave Mutual Coward Cowardice Uneasy One Half Easy Life

Author:Samuel Johnson

“An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.”

People Wells Doe Purpose Nations Growth Economic Policy Well Being Miscellaneous Economic Policy

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.”

Men Wells Whole Passion Cities Influence Patterns Vices Great Men Affected Moderation

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.”

Wells Air Built Logic Castles Lodges Mortar

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

“Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.”

Men Wells Eye Worship Infinite His Eyes Finite

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

“Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.”

Wells Invention Peacemaker

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.”

Wells Eye Valuable Appeals Iron Quotations Rice Pudding Raisins Rice Pudding

Book:I Didn't Come Here to Argue

Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue

“It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone”

Wells Enough Moments Feelings Past Sleep Gone Bed Tired Labour Delightful Delicious Limbs Posture

Book:The Indicator

Source: The Indicator

“Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.”

Wells Interest Please Disease Tales Mortals Charm Minors Worn Chords Stale Dreary Malady

Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Yesterday, Saddam Hussein got 100 percent of the vote. Well, that's according to Saddam's campaign manager, Jeb Hussein.”

Wells Percent Vote Campaigns Yesterday Managers Saddam Hussein

Author:Jay Leno

“Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind.”

Thinking Mind Wells Mean Doe Religion Hearing Factors Temples Monasteries Taming

Book:The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 2: Deity Yoga

Source: The Great Exposition of Secret Mantra, Volume 2: Deity Yoga

“Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.”

Wells Has Beens Training Shadow Deception Get Back Academic Deceived

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.”

Should Trying Wells Might Perfect Sea Circles Copies Should I Imitation Owl

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.”

Ifs Wells Impossible Subjects Painting Jokes Green

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.”

Wells May Mean Persons Desire Found Limits Absolutes Independence Fortune Abundance Contracts

Author:William Shenstone

“Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.”

Men Wells Hope Poor Superiors Palaces Poor Man Parasites Huts Flatterer

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.”

Firsts Wells Judging Reader Standards Criticism Delight Reasonable

Book:The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe

Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe

“It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.”

Wells Able One Thing Painter Honour Competence

Book:A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art

Source: A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art

“We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.”

Knows Wells Mistake

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.”

Men Wells Action Poor Results Figures Produce Painting Masters Embrace Fortuitous

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.”

Mind Wells Body Order Ought Solitude Painter Well Being Solitary Sap Draftsman

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.”

Wells May Simple Pleasure Perception Capacity Simple Pleasures

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.”

Firsts Wells Long Asks Church Week Singing Praise Thee Fancy Hymns Thanksgiving Day Praise God Disobeying Praises To God

Author:Charles Kingsley

“I?m much bigger in Britain than I am there. I'm well-known, but my name's That Guy in America. . . . People shout: "Hey ? I know you! You're That Guy.".”

People Knows Wells America Guy Names Known Bigger Hey Britain Well Known That Guy

Author:Billy Connolly

“One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.”

Thinking Wells Sides Freedom Cutting Isolation Traps Banquets

Book:There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

“A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.”

Wells Morning Jokes Harder Rough Every Morning Humorists Rough Day

Author:Alan Coren

“A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.”

Wells Children Ends Morning Wine Latin

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.”

Wells May Fire Smell

Book:The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose

“I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.”

Wells Doe Jobs Joy Quiet Observation

Book:The Business of Life

Source: The Business of Life

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