"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Lot "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Lot
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Lot Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "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-) Lot
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Lot "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Lot
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 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus 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 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Lot You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Lot
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Lot I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Lot
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Lot "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Lot
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Lot The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Lot
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Lot blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Lot
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Lot "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Lot
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Lot "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Lot
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Lot "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Lot
