Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Radio "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Radio
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Radio Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Radio
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Radio A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Radio
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Radio Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Radio
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Radio Marriage is a rest period between romances. You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Radio
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Radio Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Radio
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Radio Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Radio
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Radio Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Radio
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Radio The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Radio
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Radio 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 "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 first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Radio
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Radio "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Radio
