"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Terrasini There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 Terrasini
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Terrasini "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Terrasini
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Terrasini Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Terrasini
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Terrasini The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Terrasini
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Terrasini There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Terrasini
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Terrasini All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Terrasini
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Terrasini "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Terrasini
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Terrasini Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey 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 Terrasini
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero 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 He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Terrasini He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Terrasini
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Terrasini Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Terrasini
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Terrasini The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Terrasini
