February 16, 2015

Good Morning! Here are your daily birthday quotations...

Henry Adams (1838 – 1918):

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

and

“You say that love is nonsense.... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.”

Richard Ford (1944 - ):

“If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.”

and

“Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that.”

Iain Banks (1954 – 2013):

“It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those.”

and

“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”

and

“Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.”

Ice-T (1958 - ):

“As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.”

Natalie Angier (1958 - ):

“Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.”