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 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Society and Culture "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Society and Culture
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Society and Culture If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Society and Culture
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Society and Culture Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Society and Culture The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Society and Culture
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Society and Culture "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) 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 If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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) Society and Culture Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Society and Culture
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Society and Culture Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Society and Culture
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus 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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Society and Culture Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Society and Culture
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Society and Culture When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Society and Culture
