We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn News and Media "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe News and Media
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) News and Media Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming News and Media
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher News and Media Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) News and Media
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All News and Media
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West News and Media They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley News and Media
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill News and Media When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce News and Media
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday News and Media If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "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) News and Media
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West News and Media Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) News and Media
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. News and Media Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short News and Media
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 News and Media One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt News and Media
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake 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 There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor News and Media Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) News and Media
