Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Holidays It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Holidays
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Holidays It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Holidays
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Holidays Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Holidays
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Holidays "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Holidays
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Holidays "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Holidays
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) 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 "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) 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 I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Holidays 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 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Holidays
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. 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 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Holidays It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Holidays
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Holidays If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Holidays
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Holidays What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Holidays
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Holidays Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Holidays
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Holidays Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Holidays
