They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Arts and Entertainment 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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Arts and Entertainment
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Arts and Entertainment "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Arts and Entertainment blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? 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 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Arts and Entertainment
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Arts and Entertainment I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Arts and Entertainment
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Arts and Entertainment "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Arts and Entertainment
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Arts and Entertainment The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Arts and Entertainment
"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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment "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 You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Arts and Entertainment Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Arts and Entertainment
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 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Arts and Entertainment "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Arts and Entertainment
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Arts and Entertainment Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Arts and Entertainment
