Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Granada Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Granada
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Granada Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Granada
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Granada The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Granada
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Granada Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Granada
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston 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." ( It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed 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 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Granada Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Granada
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Granada If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Granada
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Granada Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Granada
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Granada I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Granada
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Granada Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Granada
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Granada It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Granada
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 May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "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 Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Granada There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Granada
