"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Locorotondo >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 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Locorotondo
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Locorotondo It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Locorotondo
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Locorotondo "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Locorotondo
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Locorotondo The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Locorotondo
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "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) Locorotondo "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Locorotondo
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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Locorotondo And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Locorotondo
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Locorotondo I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Locorotondo
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Locorotondo "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Locorotondo
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Locorotondo I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Locorotondo
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Locorotondo The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Locorotondo
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Locorotondo The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Locorotondo
