Robin’s Choice
My favorites from BioQuotes 4.2

Here are samples (140 quotes or 1%) of what is in the seven Parts.
These quotations most reflect my personal taste. Enjoy!


Part 1: D E F I N I T I O N S
(16 of 1900)

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. —Kahlil Gibran

Chocolate – the undisputed diva of the dessert world. —Nancy Baggett

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance. —Claudia Roden

Epigram: a wisecrack that has played Carnegie Hall.
—Oscar Levant

Eternity is just Time on an ego trip. —Lily Tomlin

Fame is like ice cream; it’s only bad if you eat too much. —Mick Jagger

Freedom is the ability to will with the whole self. —Henry Nelson Wieman

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. —John Lennon

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
—Danny Kaye

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. —Jean Anouilh

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
—Carl Sandburg

Science fiction is a literature of ideas. —Robert Silverberg

Television is chewing gum for the eyes. —Frank Lloyd Wright

Thinking is like loving and dying:
each of us must do it for himself.
—Josiah Royce

Vancouver is the California of Canada. —Ken Honey

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind. —Ayn Rand



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Part 2: D I C H O T O M I E S
(9 of 270)

Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art. —P.J. Bailey

Dogs come when they’re called;
cats take a message and get back to you.
—Missy Dizick

Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult. —Edmond Gwenn

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. —Victor Hugo

I’ve put my genius into my life;
I’ve only put my talent into my works.
—Oscar Wilde

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech, shallow as Time. —Thomas Carlyle

Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented.
—Georges Braque

Woman idealizes love, man idealizes woman. —Hildric Davenport

Yesterday is but today’s memory; tomorrow is today’s dream. —Kahlil Gibran



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Part 3: W R I T I N G
(10 of 430)

Words

Be as a page that aches for a word which speaks on a theme that is timeless.
—Neil Diamond

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,
but wise words endure.
—Edward Thorndike

Writing

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. —Henry Miller

The white page is a complete conceptual void. —Alan Moore

Writers

A professional writer is just an amateur who didn’t quit. —Richard Bach

Literary Forms

In science fiction, we dream. —Ray Bradbury

Books

Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore? —Henry Ward Beecher

A book is magical; it transcends time and space. —Daniel J. Boorstin

Reading

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine,
or enjoy friendship, love, or life.
—Holbrook Jackson

A good reader has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense.
—Vladimir Nabokov



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Part 4: A R T
(14 of 1430)

Art

It is the function of art to renew our perception. —Anaïs Nin

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. —John Ruskin

The Artist

An artist is by definition a collector of experience. —Thomas Kinkade

It is from the artist that society gains its loftier images of itself. —Joseph Wood Krutch

Painting

With an apple I will astonish Paris. —Paul Cézanne

Every good painter invents a new way of painting. —Aldous Huxley

Photography

Photography completely renewed our relationship with the universe. —Brassaï

It is not the camera that counts, it is the eye. —Justus Dahinden

Music

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. —Confucius

Good music is wine turned to sound. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Theater

A play is fiction – and fiction is fact distilled into truth. —Edward Albee

A play visibly represents pure existing. —Thornton Wilder

Film

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. —Stanley Kubrick

The cinema has no boundaries. It is a ribbon of dreams. —Orson Welles



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Part 5: E X I S T E N C E
(50 of 6800)

Philosophy

A place for everything and everything in its place. —Isabella Beeton

An ideal is a flaming vision of reality. —Joseph Conrad

If you chase perfection, you often catch excellence. —William Fowble

Your reason and your passion
are the rudder and the sails
of your seafaring soul.
—Kahlil Gibran

Everybody is the center of his own universe. —Allen Ginsberg

There is nothing permanent except change. —Heraclitus

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death. —Zora Neale Hurston

It is better to fail in originality
than to succeed in imitation.
—Herman Melville

We’re captive on the carousel of time. —Joni Mitchell

Everything in moderation – with a few glorious exceptions. —Robert Mondavi

The final mystery is the mystery of oneself. —Oscar Wilde

Religion

One’s religion is whatever one is most interested in. —James M. Barrie

If God did not exist He would have to be invented. —Voltaire

Nature

Horses lend us the wings we lack. —Pam Brown

Sunshine almost always makes me high. —John Denver

In wilderness is the preservation of the world. —Henry David Thoreau

Cat Tales

The smallest feline is a masterpiece. —Leonardo da Vinci

Love

Our soulmate is someone who shares
our deepest longings, our sense of direction.
—Richard Bach

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
—Kahlil Gibran

Women

Every woman has a goddess within. I like to bring her out. —Thierry Mugler

I prefer the company of women. I’m buzzed by the female mystique. —Jack Nicholson

The eternal in woman draws us on. —Johann von Goethe

Men

As men get older, the toys get more expensive. —Marvin Davis

I was never macho. I never wanted to hunt or box or kill. —David Duchovny

A man’s word – when you give it, you need to do it. —Jet Li

Families

A new baby is like the beginning of all things –
wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
—Eda J. LeShan

Education

I was thrown out of college for cheating on a metaphysics exam;
I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
—Woody Allen

Science

The birth of science was the death of superstition. —Thomas Huxley

Modern Life

Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke

Retail therapy is my way of life.
I don’t go to a psychologist – I go to Harrods.
—Minnie Driver

What can you say about a society
that thinks God is dead and Elvis is alive.
—Irv Kupcinet

Leisure

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. —Germaine Greer

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. —Seneca

Work

Create the best in anything, and there’s usually a market for it. —Richard Branson

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. —Margaret Fuller

Computers

The iPod is the 21st century’s first consumer icon. —Michael Bull

The computer is a bicycle for the mind. —Steve Jobs

The PC is the LSD of the 1990s. —Timothy Leary

Let’s get back to designing simple, functional, elegant software. —Bruce Tognazinni

The Mac is not a religion, it’s just a very good computer. —Dave Winer

Other Thoughts

We’ve no control over our conception,
only over our creation.
—Tony Curtis

Millions long for immortality
who don’t know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
—Susan Ertz

The true art of memory is the art of attention. —Samuel Johnson

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. —John Keats

The home should be the treasure chest of living. —Le Corbusier

You really don’t have to be young
to find a friend in a teddy bear.
—Rachel Newman

Creations,
whether they are children, poems or organizations,
take on a life of their own.
—Starhawk

Things forbidden have a secret charm. —Tacitus

He who lives in the present lives in eternity. —Ludwig Wittgenstein

Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
—Frank Lloyd Wright



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Part 6: H U M O R
(26 of 2600)

Humor

I can’t say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. —Daniel Boone

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button. —Dan Chopin

I won’t be happy until I’m as famous as God. —Madonna

I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. —Chico Marx

When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London. —Bette Midler

I love California – I practically grew up in Phoenix. —Dan Quayle

The guest is always right – even if we have to throw him out. —Charles Ritz

If you can’t win by reason, go for volume. —Bill Watterson

Everything I want is either illegal, immoral, or fattening. —Alexander Woollcott

Wit

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. —W.C. Fields

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. —George Bernard Shaw

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. —Mark Twain

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? —Mae West

Comedy

Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. —George Carlin

I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too. —Mitch Hedberg

You’re not famous until my mother has heard of you. —Jay Leno

Boy those French, they have a different word for everything. —Steve Martin

There’s no such thing as “fun for the whole family”. —Jerry Seinfeld

I got an “A” in philosophy
because I proved that my professor didn’t exist.
—Judy Tenuta

I have an existential map.
It has “You are here” written all over it.
—Steven Wright

Wordplay

You’ve buttered your bread, now sleep in it. —Gracie Allen

This is like déjà vu all over again. —Yogi Berra

If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt. —Dean Martin

It’s not true I had nothing on – I had the radio on. —Marilyn Monroe

One more drink and I’ll be under the host. —Dorothy Parker

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. —Helen Rowland



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Part 7: E A T I N G
(15 of 570)

Cooking

In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection. —Curnonsky

Kissing don’t last; cookery do! —George Meredith

Food

Research tells us that fourteen
out of any ten individuals like chocolate.
—Sandra Boynton

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.
—Lewis Carroll

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. —Shirley Conran

Vanilla is a spice that seems to scream dessert. —Janet Hazen

He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. —Ring Lardner

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. —Sophia Loren

Eating

Bring on the dessert. I think I am about to die. —Brillat-Savarin

The art of dining well is no slight art,
the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
—Michel de Montaigne

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. —George Bernard Shaw

Drinking

Let’s get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini. —Robert Benchley

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence
of concentrated sunbeams.
—Thomas Peacock

Coffee has become the new elixir of seduction. —Mark Schapiro

Having honeyed tea can imbue the inner self with warm well-being. —Robin Seer



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