We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Osijek and Baranja I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Osijek and Baranja
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Osijek and Baranja To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Osijek and Baranja
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Osijek and Baranja 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Osijek and Baranja
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Osijek and Baranja Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Osijek and Baranja
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Osijek and Baranja Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Osijek and Baranja
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde 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" Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Osijek and Baranja It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Osijek and Baranja
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Osijek and Baranja He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Osijek and Baranja
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "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 Osijek and Baranja "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Osijek and Baranja
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Osijek and Baranja If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Osijek and Baranja
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Osijek and Baranja "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Osijek and Baranja
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Osijek and Baranja Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
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