Yes, quotes, and no, I do not mean the long-winded platitudes we were forced to memorize back in high school in order to “effortlessly” weave them into our essays and thus seem educated. There are so many interesting people out there who said and wrote even more intriguing, original, thought-provoking, downright sarcastic and funny sentences – why should we ignore them? From putting them on your computer desktop to sticking them on a fridge magnet/writing with a lipstick on your mirror to just giving them a moment of thought, quotes are definitely a source of creative observation - why not share it? Here comes the first “creative quote selection” – starting with my favourite one about a cactus, and finishing with sharply insightful ones from one of my favourite writers – Terry Pratchett. Know anything you’d like to add?
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought: Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert. (Demetri Martin)
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Bill Watterson)
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. (Judith Martin)
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. (Laurence J. Peter)
I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. (Katherine Cebrian)
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. (Rita Mae Brown)
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. (Terry Pratchett)
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual
Terry Pratchett)
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores Terry Pratchett)