The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Localities That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Localities
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Localities 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 Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Localities
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Localities
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Localities
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Localities Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Localities
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Localities I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Localities
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker 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 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 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Localities "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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 Localities
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Localities Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Localities
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Localities blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Localities
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Localities And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Localities
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Localities To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Localities
