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-- Oliver Herford "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Cinema Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Cinema
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Cinema The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Cinema
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "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-) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Cinema If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Cinema
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cinema Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Cinema
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Cinema "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Cinema
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Cinema 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 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Cinema
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cinema We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Cinema
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Cinema "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Cinema
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cinema I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Cinema
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Cinema Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Cinema
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Cinema One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Cinema
