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"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Theatre Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Theatre
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 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Theatre We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Theatre
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Theatre Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Theatre
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Theatre Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Theatre
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Theatre My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 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 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Theatre What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Theatre
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "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) Theatre There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Theatre
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Theatre "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
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I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Theatre "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Theatre
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 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 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Theatre Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Theatre
"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) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Theatre Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Theatre
