Robin’s Choice
My favorites from BioQuotes 4.0

Here are samples (120 quotes or 1%) of what is in the seven Parts.
These quotations most reflect my personal taste. Enjoy!


Part 1: DEFINITIONS
(12 of 1750)

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

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

Philosophy is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat which isn’t there.
—Lord Bowen

Vancouver is the California of Canada. —Ken Honey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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Part 2: DICHOTOMIES
(8 of 250)

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

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

Woman idealizes love, man idealizes woman. —Hildric Davenport

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

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

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



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Part 3: WRITING
(9 of 400)

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

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: ART
(10 of 1200)

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

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

Photography

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

Music

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. —Robert Browning

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

The Theater

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: EXISTENCE
(40 of 5800)

Philosophy

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

That is happiness;
to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather

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

All the world’s a stage,
and all the men and women merely players.
—William Shakespeare

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

When you are close to nature you can listen to the voice of God. —Hermann Hesse

Cat Tales

The smallest feline is a masterpiece. —Leonardo da Vinci

Love

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

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

Men

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

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

Life’s better when it’s fun. Boy, that’s deep, isn’t it? —Kevin Costner

Work

Every man is the son of his own works. —Miguel de Cervantes

Computers

Wozniak and Jobs are the technoculture’s Adam and Eve. —Jeff Goodell

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: HUMOR
(26 of 2100)

Humor

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

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 own and operate a ferocious ego. —Bill Moyers

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

Polite conversation is rarely either. —Fran Lebowitz

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

I am not young enough to know everything. —Oscar Wilde

Comedy

Weather forecast for tonight: Dark. —George Carlin

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

Give us this day our daily mask. —Tom Stoppard



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Part 7: EATING
(15 of 500)

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

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

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. —Sophia Loren

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat.
—Mark Twain

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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