Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage News and Media Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 News and Media
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "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-) News and Media A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey 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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" News and Media
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio News and Media We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti News and Media
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele News and Media Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea News and Media
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry News and Media Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh News and Media
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) News and Media The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) News and Media
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings News and Media Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker News and Media
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton News and Media 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
chara "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 News and Media
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder News and Media He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey News and Media
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) News and Media "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 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor News and Media
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi News and Media I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
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