Shabreena Z - May 12, 2010 writes:

Hello all,

A suggestion from me: We all can post a quote per day which may give us a opportunity pick a subject (to write) based on our quote. Doest it make sense?

I go first to see:
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a child playing on the seashore while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

~ Sir Isaac Newton
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Catherine H - May 14, 2010 replied:

Hi Shabreena This sounds sounds like a good idea. One of my favourite quotes I found was actually written on a notebook I got from Barnes and Noble in America and I liked it so much that I made it my "writing notebook" as it seemed to apply: 'Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars' I don't know who said this - possibly Brian Littrell

Shabreena Z - May 14, 2010 replied:

Hi Catherine, I like the meaning of what you've quoted very much too. Here we go for today's quote: ================================ It doesn't matter how slow you go, so long as you don't stop. ~ Confucius =======================================

Katia G - May 19, 2010 replied:

Hi everyone. I do love quotes and I particularly like Catherine's one. Here is mine: I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs

B P - June 19, 2010 replied:

Hi all, Indians & even Shakespeare believe in DESTINY. I send this quote from 'King Lear': "As flies to the wanton boys are we to the Gods, they kill us for their sport". B N N Prasad Student No. 4144042

Robin H - June 25, 2010 replied:

I saw this many years ago at the foot of a page in Reader's Digest, it was listed as 'Anon' ..... It is a successful person who can build a solid foundation out of the bricks people throw at him.

Amrita S - July 3, 2010 replied:

Hello everyone, i'm Amrita joining in today...very nice quotes ...Iam adding 2 of mine: The first: If something sounds too good to be true it probably is. The second: All good things must come to an end for all good things to begin again. The first one I read somewhere can't remember where and the second a friend said at the end of a party !

Martin J - July 17, 2010 replied:

Hey, I love quotes and tend to keep an rtf file of them. My favourite, though, is.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step - I think that is another Confucius type quote. To put it into perspective for us writers, try this.
A book of a million words starts with a single letter - thats by me.

Rachael R - July 26, 2010 replied:

Hello all, I'm relatively new to the course, and I haven't really contributed to much yet, but these quotes really caught my eye. I love quotes (especially from songs) I find them really inspiring. So here are a couple of mine from an amazing artist I've only just discovered called India Arie, she's incredible. "If Nelson Mandela can forgive his oppressor, surely I can forgive you for your passion." "I'm having a private party, I'm learning how to love me, I'm celebrating the woman I've become." I hope you like them. Rachael x

Anna A - August 7, 2010 replied:

HE WHO HAS THE WHY TO LIVE CAN BEAR ALMOST ANYHOW

Shabreena Z - August 8, 2010 replied:

Very true this one, quote for today: Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ~Ursula Le Guin

Robin H - August 8, 2010 replied:

Totally unrelated .... 'he who eats last, eats best.' William Shakespeare (Something to bear in mind at the buffet...)

Administrator - August 10, 2010 replied:

Hi! I also found some very true ones: 1."Neither a borrower nor a lender be" "Hamlet' Shakespeare 2. "What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult to each other?" George Eliot 3. "Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction." Anne Frank 4. "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain Jadwiga

Rachael R - September 10, 2010 replied:

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Neil A - September 24, 2010 replied:

Whether you think you can or you cant, either way you are right.

Judy B - January 5, 2011 replied:

The problem with bucket seats is we all don't have the same size bucket!

jacqueline r - April 14, 2011 replied:

"It costs a fortune to look this cheap" Dolly Parton

Francis T - August 9, 2011 replied:

Hi, this page has caught my eye..."Life is a bridge," quotes a hindu saying, " Pass over it but build no house upon it."

MEDHA N - February 12, 2012 replied:

heres my favourite : "there are only two things that are infinite - the universe and human stupidity. and im not quite sure about the universe." - albert einstein.