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We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Government An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Government
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Government
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Government When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Government
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca 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 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Government What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Government
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Government In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Government
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "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) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Government "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Government
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Government The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Government "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Government
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Government The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Government
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Government "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Government
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Government Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Government
