“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lighting and the lightning bug.”

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

L.M. Montgomery

“Reality is an acquired taste, and I have spent a great deal of time and had a great deal of problems acquiring it.”

Matthew Perry (1969-2023)

In reality, the most important things happen when you don’t look for them.

Phil Donahue (1935 – 2024)

The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don’t we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let’s laugh about it.

Bob Newhart (1929 – 2024)

“Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!”

Donald Sutherland (1935-2024)

When Ozzy Osbourne was asked about The Beatles and why they were so important, he gave a relatively poignant answer. Talking in 2019, he said, “The only way I can describe it is like this: Imagine you go to bed today, and the world is black and white, and then you wake up, and everything’s in colour. That’s what it was like! That’s the profound effect it had on me.”

“There’s no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.”

Johnny Cash

“God would not give us the same talents if what were right for men were wrong for women.”

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

Stephen Grellet (1772-1855)