Grimstad - Visit Grimstad, the southern Norwegian city of the authors Ibsen and Hamsun.
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Grimstad I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Grimstad
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Grimstad Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Grimstad
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Grimstad "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Grimstad
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Grimstad Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Grimstad
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Grimstad I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Grimstad
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton 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 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Grimstad "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) 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 Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Grimstad
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Grimstad Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Grimstad
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Grimstad "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Grimstad
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Grimstad A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Grimstad
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Grimstad "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Grimstad
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Grimstad I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Grimstad
