Aaron Copland
“Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness – I wouldn’t know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- …
Year: 2008
Samuel Johnson
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
Paul Johnson
“The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.”
Robert X. Cringely
“If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 0, get a million miles per gallon, and …
Arthur C. Clarke
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Meredith Willson
“Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.”
Mary Tyler Moore
“Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.”
Michael J. Fox
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman
“Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All …
Alexandre Dumas
“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.”
Thomas Merton
“The least of learning is done in the classrooms.”
Ernest Benn
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
Albert Camus
“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.”
Victor Hugo
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Science arose from poetry–when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”
Scott Adams
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Charles McCabe
“Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.”
Joe Martin
“The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against wacking them around a little.”
Bill Hoest
“I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.”
Helmuth von Moltke
“First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.”
Elbert Hubbard
“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
John Heywood
“A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.”
Peter McWilliams
“Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can’t change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. …
Robert J. Sawyer
“General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.”
Bertrand Russell
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
William Arthur Ward
“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.”
Rebecca Beard
“The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was …
Reverend Sean Parker Dennison
“The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.”
Grenville Kleiser
“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must …
Johnny Carson
“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”
Clarence Darrow
“The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.”
Slovenian Proverb
“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.”
Tom Lehrer
“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!”
Seneca
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
Lee Simonson
“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
Fred Hoyle
“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
Saki
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”