Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Aerospace and Defence Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Aerospace and Defence
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Aerospace and Defence Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Aerospace and Defence
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Aerospace and Defence Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Aerospace and Defence
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Aerospace and Defence The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying 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 Aerospace and Defence
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Aerospace and Defence What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Aerospace and Defence
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Aerospace and Defence Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Aerospace and Defence
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 Aerospace and Defence Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Aerospace and Defence
"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 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Aerospace and Defence I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Aerospace and Defence
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Aerospace and Defence The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Aerospace and Defence
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Aerospace and Defence "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Aerospace and Defence
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Aerospace and Defence "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Aerospace and Defence
