Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Arcadia Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Arcadia
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Arcadia I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Arcadia
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "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 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Arcadia The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Arcadia
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Arcadia When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Arcadia
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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Arcadia Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Arcadia
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Arcadia Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Arcadia
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Arcadia The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Arcadia
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "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 Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Arcadia "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Arcadia
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Arcadia "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Arcadia
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Arcadia Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Arcadia
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Arcadia Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Arcadia
