Quotable Contest
I love quotes. I collect them and frequently read back through them for a laugh or to be inspired. Often at the same time. Here are a few of my favorites:
“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.” - Marlene Dietrich
“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.” - W. Somerset Maugham
“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.” - David H. Comins
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” - Reggie Leach
“When I can no longer create anything, I’ll be done for.” - Coco Chanel
*And my very favorite(I have a lot of Lily Tomlin favorites, but this ranks tops for me!):
“What if it’s boring, or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring” - Lily Tomlin
So now to the exciting part! A new giveaway!! Tell me YOUR favorite quote for a chance to enter to win. The winner will be chosen in a drawing and the prize is any one thing of your choosing from my SALE section. The last day to enter will be Monday, June 22 and I will announce the winner the following Tuesday.
“I’ll have the badonkadonk butt with a side of thunderthighs, please.”
-Subway commercial, 2008
Does that count?
Or if you’re in a serious mood:
“The one concern of the Devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from their prayerless studies, prayerless works, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toils, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when they pray.” Samuel Chadwick
And then, I made up one myself: “I suffer from hipatitis: terminal coolness.”
“I shall seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend and crush me completely” — Ludwig von Beethoven
great idea for a giveaway! fun & different.
“This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.”
- Dorothy Parker
Oh, the “little lovelies” in your sale section are so cute!
Count me in!
Favorite quote?
(Since I am in a Tombstone mood today!)
“Why, Kate, you’re not wearing a bustle… how lewd.”
:)
I LOVE quotes!!!
My current fave is:
“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.” ~A. Davies
Your shop is fabulous, and I especially love your name!!!
Oh, there are so many great quotes. I don’t think I have a favorite. Since I am an etsy artist, I’ll use this one for your giveaway:
Pablo Picasso said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
I used it in my blog at http://jeanneselep.blogspot.com/search/label/art%20quote
So many awesome ones already!
Kearsie, the Kearsie quote is going in my collection. For real. :)
Cabootique, wow, that’s determination.
Amanda, that’s a GREAT quote!
Kate, haha! Very nice.
Thanks so much, Lindsey, that’s wonderful to hear.
Jeanne, I read that one just the other day and liked it a lot, glad you posted it.
Oh so many brilliant quotes here already!
I collect them too:)
Here’s one of my favorites:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” by Mahatma Gandhi.
great contest!
I always liked this quote ( I am a bit of a spider-man fan)
“With great power comes great responsibility.” - Stan Lee (creator of spider-man)
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” - Reggie Leach
I like this quote!
I love quotes too! This is my favorite:
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” - Anais Nin
Rallying cry of artists, activists, and loonies the world over!
“I reject your reality, and substitute my own!” -Adam, Mythbusters
I live by that.:D
When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. -Nietzsche
I’m a quote collector, too – Here’s on of my favorite from Tolstoy:
Everyone things of changing the world; no one things of changing themselves.
I just stumbled on your blog and had to comment because I’m a bit crazy when it comes to collecting quotes!
Fave from a movie:
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” Lester Bangs, Almost Famous
Fave from a book:
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” — The Little Prince
Fave random:
“Art is not a thing, it is a way.” — Elbert Hubbard
Fave that I do not have the author of:
“A vision without the ability to execute is probably an hallucination.”
Sadly, I can’t recall the author of this,
“Treat the earth well. It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.”
ooohh… I have more… I’m an art teacher, so I guess I have to quote an artist,,,
“When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come” - Leonardo Da Vinci.
I live in the South, nuff said. ;)
“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.”
— Mark Twain
My favourite quote:
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
— Maya Angelou
I think you’ll know why I love this so, especially recently =)
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
–Helen Keller
My fave quote:
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” —Oscar Wilde
“Me fail english? That’s unpossible.” - Ralph Wiggum
I always get a giggle out of this one.
My favourite quotation is from Roy Goodman, “Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination.” :D
As to humor here is one of my favs:
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”~Unknown
“It’s an incredible con job when you think about it. to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous” — Glora Steinem
and
“If you can’t be a good example, be a dire warning” — unknown
are 2 of my (many) favorite quotes :)
“A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.” Mitch Hedberg
I like humor more than anything. :D
My favorite quote is “I will never let school interfere with my education” by Mark Twain.
We are homeschoolers and this sums up in a nutshell how I feel about public education ;-)
Oh cool!
One of my favs, it’s so true and I’ve been there before so many times!
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.”
-C.S. Lewis
Thank you for your kind comment on my avatar. It is a graphite portrait that I did of my Sugar, Great Pyrenees who is now dancing with the angels.
What a great idea this is. Do you mind if I borrow it after some time has passed?
Here is my quote. It was hard to choose just one.
“Life is to be lived. Embrace it.” Luci Swindoll