"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Actors and Actresses "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Actors and Actresses
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) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Actors and Actresses It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Actors and Actresses
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Actors and Actresses "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Actors and Actresses
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Actors and Actresses "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Actors and Actresses
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Actors and Actresses It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Actors and Actresses
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Actors and Actresses Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Actors and Actresses
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Actors and Actresses Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Actors and Actresses
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "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 I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer 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 Actors and Actresses The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Actors and Actresses
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln 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 I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Actors and Actresses "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Actors and Actresses
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Actors and Actresses "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Actors and Actresses
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Actors and Actresses "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Actors and Actresses
