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"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Cinema Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Cinema
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cinema Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Cinema
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Cinema Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Cinema
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Cinema "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Cinema
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Cinema Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Cinema
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Cinema "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "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) Cinema
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Cinema You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) 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 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Cinema Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Cinema
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Cinema Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Cinema
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Cinema Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Cinema
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cinema Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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