"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville News and Media Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." News and Media
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge News and Media
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott News and Media A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University News and Media
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) News and Media If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun News and Media
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) News and Media There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine News and Media
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 To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe News and Media Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb News and Media Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words News and Media
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit News and Media "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T News and Media
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Think off-center." (George Carlin) News and Media I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig News and Media
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 News and Media
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce News and Media It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) News and Media
