The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen 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 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Religion A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Religion
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Religion He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Religion
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Religion Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Religion
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Religion Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Religion
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 If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Religion Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Religion
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Religion Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Religion
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Religion "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Religion
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Religion "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Religion
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Religion Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Religion
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James 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 Religion If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Religion
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Religion "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Religion
