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Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Pirkanmaa Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Pirkanmaa
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual 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 Pirkanmaa Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Pirkanmaa
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) 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 Pirkanmaa Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Pirkanmaa
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Pirkanmaa In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Pirkanmaa
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Pirkanmaa It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Pirkanmaa
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Pirkanmaa Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Pirkanmaa How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Pirkanmaa
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Pirkanmaa Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Pirkanmaa
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Pirkanmaa We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Pirkanmaa
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Pirkanmaa 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 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Pirkanmaa
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Pirkanmaa The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Pirkanmaa
