"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Basingstoke and Deane Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Basingstoke and Deane
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Basingstoke and Deane What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Basingstoke and Deane
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Basingstoke and Deane A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Basingstoke and Deane
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Basingstoke and Deane The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Basingstoke and Deane
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Basingstoke and Deane Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Basingstoke and Deane
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Basingstoke and Deane You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Basingstoke and Deane
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Basingstoke and Deane "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Basingstoke and Deane
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Basingstoke and Deane The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Basingstoke and Deane
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday 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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Basingstoke and Deane 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Basingstoke and Deane
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Basingstoke and Deane "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Basingstoke and Deane
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Basingstoke and Deane Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Basingstoke and Deane
