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"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. 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 Arts and Entertainment Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Arts and Entertainment
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Arts and Entertainment After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Arts and Entertainment
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Arts and Entertainment Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Arts and Entertainment
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Arts and Entertainment Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Arts and Entertainment
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment 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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Arts and Entertainment I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Arts and Entertainment
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Arts and Entertainment 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 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Arts and Entertainment
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T >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 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "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) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Arts and Entertainment
