Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Business to Business A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Business to Business
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard 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 "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Business to Business There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Business to Business
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? 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 Business to Business "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Business to Business
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business to Business It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Business to Business
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Business to Business It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Business to Business
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
not allow Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Business to Business "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Business to Business
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Business to Business He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens 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 Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "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 blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Business to Business I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Business to Business
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Business to Business "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Business to Business
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Business to Business My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Business to Business
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 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 "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Business to Business 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 If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "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 Business to Business
