"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu By Region Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder By Region
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado 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 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire By Region Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire By Region
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain By Region You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous By Region
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (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) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake By Region The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) By Region
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz By Region Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) By Region
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) By Region blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) By Region
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra By Region Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland By Region
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev By Region It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes By Region
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) What's new? Most of my wife. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf By Region I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr By Region
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. By Region I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap By Region
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) By Region Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow By Region
