"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
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-- Garry Trudeau In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz City of Leeds When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") City of Leeds
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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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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 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier City of Leeds The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "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 sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
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-- Unknown history student City of Leeds
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb City of Leeds Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi City of Leeds
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) City of Leeds Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard City of Leeds
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The City of Leeds He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. City of Leeds
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand City of Leeds No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe City of Leeds blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words City of Leeds
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran City of Leeds The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett City of Leeds I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening City of Leeds When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason City of Leeds
