Kadajas, Tajo - Composer, songwriter and singer. Contains audio samples, discography and profile.
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Arts and Entertainment When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Arts and Entertainment Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Arts and Entertainment
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Arts and Entertainment The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Arts and Entertainment
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Arts and Entertainment
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Arts and Entertainment "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Arts and Entertainment
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Arts and Entertainment
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "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) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Arts and Entertainment I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Arts and Entertainment
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Arts and Entertainment The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Arts and Entertainment "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Arts and Entertainment
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Arts and Entertainment The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Arts and Entertainment
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Arts and Entertainment A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Arts and Entertainment
