Guardian Unlimited Special Report: Millennium Dome - Dossier of articles about the Millennium Dome from the Guardian and Observer newspapers. Also includes background information and a discussion forum.
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Millennium Dome "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Millennium Dome
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "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) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Millennium Dome You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Millennium Dome
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Millennium Dome The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Millennium Dome
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Millennium Dome Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Millennium Dome
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown 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 "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) Millennium Dome A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Millennium Dome
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain 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? Millennium Dome Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Millennium Dome
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Millennium Dome "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Millennium Dome
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Millennium Dome Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen 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 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Millennium Dome
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) 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 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Millennium Dome Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Millennium Dome
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Millennium Dome Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Millennium Dome
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Millennium Dome In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Millennium Dome
