Rechi, Bogdan - Includes short information about studies, spoken languages, interests, and contact information.
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "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' I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN R Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) R
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke R "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman R
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein R Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor R
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman R "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor R
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French R The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin R
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen R "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells R
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe R "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long R
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay R We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) R
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland R I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed R
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero R We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all R Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student R
