They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Photographers I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Photographers
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Photographers Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Photographers
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Photographers Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Photographers
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Photographers May you never leave your marriage alive. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Photographers
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Photographers The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Photographers
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Photographers Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Photographers
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Photographers I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Photographers
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t 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 Photographers All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Photographers
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Photographers Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Photographers
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Photographers You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Photographers
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Photographers If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Photographers
