"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Performing Arts "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Performing Arts
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Performing Arts Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Performing Arts
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller 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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Performing Arts 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 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Performing Arts
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 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Performing Arts Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Performing Arts
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Performing Arts It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Performing Arts
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Performing Arts Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Performing Arts
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Performing Arts Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Performing Arts
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Performing Arts "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Performing Arts
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Performing Arts Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Performing Arts
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Performing Arts A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Performing Arts
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Performing Arts Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Performing Arts
