Quotes

Hello to all!

I don't know about you guys, but I adore quotes. Not ALL quotes, but those that I can take something away from. For instance I love this one from David Ogilvy: Wooly minded people write wooly memos. wooly letters and wooly speeches. Apparently this man was influential years ago. All I know is his quotes ring various bells with me.

The Unpublished Works Of David Ogilvy is online. You can also find it on Brain Pickings by Maria Popova. She has an interesting blog that holds a lot of out-of-the-box thinking. I've been looking on various blogs and places where I can find quotes that appeal to me.

My dentist has his dental receipts ended with inspirational quotes. No matter how painful the treatment has been, these quotes are also uncannily right for that particular day. I have quite a collection of them as I had some root canal work done over a period of time. One of these days(ha,ha) I will copy them onto a disc or my harddrive and have them all where I can just access them at my leisure(another ha,ha moment).

Seriously though, some very unexpected people gave some very interesting quotes. Marilyn Monroe, thought by her contemporaries and other people as a blonde bimbo without a brain to bless herself, had some very pithy quotes to make: I don't mind living in a man's world so long as I can be a woman in it and: I restore myself when I am alone. I love this woman, although she is dead.

Albert Einstein made a lot of sense when he said: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And one which I find very interesting in light of the way he is depicted: Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Interesting. Did this genius actually try this?

As I said, I love quotes. Not because I wanted to say them myself, but often the attraction is who said them. And, if they are repeated, which they are, who repeats them the best? Some of them have also given me ideas for books, of which are in the first preparation.

Agatha Christie got many of her plot ideas from the Bible, as have many other authors. But why not do a Google search for quotes? Or pick a person and see if they have ever said anything funny, interesting or outrageous that has been noted down as a quote?

Believe me, great fun.