Following on from my look at influences, here is a House special.

“The great thing about telling somebody they’re dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they’re willing to die for. What they’re willing to lie for.”

Cuddy: “Dr. House! Need you here.”
House: “No thanks. Lots of sick people. I might catch something.”

“What else turns you on? Drugs? Casual sex? Rough sex? Casual, rough sex? I’m a doctor, I need to know.”

“Dying people lie too. Wish they’d worked less, been nicer, opened orphanages for kittens. If you really want to do something, you do it. You don’t save it for a sound bite.”

Chase: “How would you feel if I interfered in your personal life?”
House: “I’d hate it. That’s why I cleverly have no personal life.”

Inspirational quotes for 12th January 2008.

False Gods: “We all make mistakes, lad. We need to appreciate them for what they are - lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake of course, but at least someone else can learn from that.”

Rainer Maria Rilke: “There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.“

Aldous Huxley: “Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.”

Alan Watts: “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”

Inspirational quotes for 29th December 2007.

John Luther: “Good character is more to be praised that outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece–by thought, choice, courage, and determination.”

Babe Ruth: “Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, ‘It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.’”

Marilyn Monroe: “I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, ‘There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.’”

Inspirational quotes for 15th December 2007.

Lin Yutang: “A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.”

Norman Vincent Peale: “The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly… which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties, he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.”

St. Francis de Sales: “How are we to be patient with our partner’s, our children’s, our friends’, and our neighbors’ faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? They who are fretted by their own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm and peaceful mind.”

Inspirational quotes for 01st December 2007.

Francis Bacon: “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

Douglas Adams: “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

Margaret Thatcher: “I think [success] is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”

Barbara Jordan: “Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”