Penn Jillette
“Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.”
Year: 2008
Cyril Connolly
“All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”
Vince Lombardi
“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”
Augusten Burroughs
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.”
William Feather
“The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.”
David Russell
“We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.”
Vernon Howard
“You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey… Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, …
Lisa Williams
“The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you …
Publilius Syrus
“It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.”
Diane Ackerman
“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.”
Doug Larson
“Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.”
Dr. Thomas Fuller
“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.”
Alan Turing
“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”
Dean Martin
“If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.”
Cindy Chupack
“That’s the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.”
Stephen Covey
“One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the …
James Howell
“Respect a man, he will do the more.”
Elmer Davis
“The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
Rick Cook
“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better …
John Grogan
“A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.”
Ruben Studdard
“You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don’t know to be arrogant …
Shakti Gawain
“We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples’ models, learn to …
Nicholas Chamfort
“An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.”
Robert Frost
“The best way out is always through.”
Frank Herbert
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
Bill Vaughan
“If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”
Elizabeth Aston
“There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one’s problems and sorrows with one.”
Hugh Macleod
“Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it./ It’s your freedom that will get you to where you want to …
Elizabeth Stone
“The particular human chain we’re part of is central to our individual identity.”
Jean Houston
“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”
Thorstein Veblen
“Invention is the mother of necessity.”
George Burns
“I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.”
Tom Robbins
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.”
Andy Warhol
“I am a deeply superficial person.”
John Ruskin
“We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing …
Tina Turner
“The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a …
W. Somerset Maugham
“Life isn’t long enough for love and art.”