Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Arts and Entertainment I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Arts and Entertainment "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Arts and Entertainment
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Arts and Entertainment "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Arts and Entertainment
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. 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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Arts and Entertainment blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Arts and Entertainment "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) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Arts and Entertainment Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Arts and Entertainment Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Arts and Entertainment
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Arts and Entertainment "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Arts and Entertainment
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Arts and Entertainment
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Arts and Entertainment Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Arts and Entertainment
