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Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Business and Economy
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Business and Economy Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Business and Economy
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Business and Economy Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Business and Economy
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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,
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Business and Economy You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Business and Economy
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Business and Economy If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Business and Economy
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Business and Economy Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Business and Economy
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Business and Economy "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Business and Economy
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Business and Economy The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Business and Economy
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Business and Economy "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Business and Economy
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Business and Economy "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Business and Economy
