The Best Quotations

Winnie the Pooh

Edwin Ouellette — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:11:01 +0000

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”

Emily Dickinson

Edwin Ouellette — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:52:02 +0000

“Dying is a wild night and a new road.“

-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

(Image courtesy of www.britannica.com)

Benjamin Franklin

Edwin Ouellette — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:18:42 +0000

“He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.”
-Benjamin Franklin

Big Fish

Edwin Ouellette — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:03:49 +0000

“There’s a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny’s lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I’ve always been a fool.”

-Edward Bloom, Big Fish (2003)

Big Fish movie poster

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Edwin Ouellette — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:13:10 +0000

“It’s no use going back to yesterday,
because I was a different person then.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Success Is…

Edwin Ouellette — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:03:38 +0000

“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived – this is to have succeeded.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is Life?

Edwin Ouellette — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:24:52 +0000

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”

- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

fireflies in the night

Lord of the Rings

Edwin Ouellette — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:57:55 +0000

“All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.”

-Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001 movie

scene from the Fellowship of the Ring

Shing Xiong

Edwin Ouellette — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:20:48 +0000

“In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.”

-Shing Xiong

Dictators & Tigers

Edwin Ouellette — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:17:27 +0000

(image courtesy of bergoiata.org)

“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”

-Winston Churchill, 11 November, 1937 letter