Celestine Sibley famous quotes

How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?
-- Celestine Sibley

#Achievement #Advice #Secret

I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.
-- Celestine Sibley

#Moving #Detectives #Kind

Being a reporter is one of the noblest things you can do in life. Letting the people know. It's really a holy cause. Time after time after time, in the middle of corruption and disgrace and bad politics, I've seen people come through and do for people. I write about someone in trouble and someone else rallies to help them. Through reporting, things can change.
-- Celestine Sibley

#Writing #People #Causes

A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.
-- Celestine Sibley

#Adventure #Motorcycle #Tunes

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Achievement has no color

The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any.

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?

One of my secrets is to joke all the time.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.