Usually posting these quotes is a relatively easy process — I just copy and paste the format from the last time and copy and paste the new group of quotes from the script that puts them in the header. But I discovered that the conversion to Wordpress reorganized all my archived posts. They’re all still there, but you wouldn’t find them with the old links. So [I know you want to know this] I went through and updated the links in all the previous installments of this series. You’re welcome. [smirk]

What I really should say is what I mean. I take a breath and continue before the air changes over what I said. ~ anonymousgrrl

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. ~ St. Augustine

Will I still respect you in the morning? Who says I respect you now?

A cheerful attitude may not solve all of your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live! ~ Henry David Thoreau

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot. ~ Steve Martin

At first you feel that you may die, then you worry that you won’t.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Life is just blog fodder. ~ Elle of True Blue 4ever

It doesn’t take strength to let go, it only takes understanding.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens. ~ Malcolm Cowley

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~ Confucious

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. ~ Ernest Rutherford

There are no degrees of uniqueness. ~ William Shawn

People forget years and remember moments. ~ Ann Beattie

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~ David Russell

The difference between plutonium and me = plutonium has a half-life more than I do. ~me

I get a different answer at midnight than I do at noon. ~ Sherwood Smith

You looked hotter on MySpace.

The previous parts of this series are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. (If you’re keeping track, there are 259 quotes in rotation now.) Two of the quotes in this group are from other blogs that I read. You can find them in the list over there —–>