People like to think that if they just sort their garbage into neat little piles, all their environmental problems will go away.
-Patricia Poore, editor and publisher of Garbage magazine
Category: “Ideas won’t keep…”
“Ideas won’t keep…” #2
Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
“Ideas won’t keep…” #3
One reason a dog is such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.
–National Enquirer
“Ideas won’t keep…” #4
I don’t want everyone to like me. I should think less of myself if some people did.
-Henry James
If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have a character.
-Paul Newman
“Ideas won’t keep…” #5
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, become great.
-Mark Twain
Who in your life helps you belive in yourself? Write about this person and how he or she affects you. Or maybe you are the hero to someone younger. Explain the ways in which you encourage him or her.
“Ideas won’t keep…” #6
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
-Bill Cosby
“Ideas won’t keep…” #7
Anyone who is any good is different from anyone else.
-Felix Frankfurter
“Ideas won’t keep…” #8
When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay one to yourself.
-Mark Twain
“Ideas won’t keep…” #9
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.
-G. K. Chesterton
Good fences make good neighbors.
-Robert Frost
“Ideas won’t keep…” #10
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
-Robert Fulhum
We may never know when the right word will tranform a person’s life.
-Philip White
Words are powerful, both as weapons and as gifts.
Write about an experience, happy or unhappy, in which words made a deep impression on you. Use details to bring the situation to life.