"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Bands and Artists The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Bands and Artists
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Bands and Artists I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Bands and Artists
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Bands and Artists Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Bands and Artists
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Bands and Artists It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Bands and Artists
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Bands and Artists "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Bands and Artists
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
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grie "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Bands and Artists There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Bands and Artists
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Bands and Artists What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Bands and Artists
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Bands and Artists "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Bands and Artists
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Bands and Artists Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Bands and Artists
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Bands and Artists It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Bands and Artists
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Bands and Artists "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
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-- David Mamet Bands and Artists
