Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Travel and Tourism May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Travel and Tourism
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Travel and Tourism If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Travel and Tourism When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Travel and Tourism
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Travel and Tourism
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed 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 Travel and Tourism I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 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 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Travel and Tourism "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Travel and Tourism Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb 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 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Travel and Tourism
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Travel and Tourism When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Travel and Tourism
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake 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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Travel and Tourism Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Travel and Tourism "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Travel and Tourism
