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World War III is a guerrilla information war, with no division between military and civilian participation.
Back To Top-- Marshall McLuhan

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Back To Top-- Len Wein

If the human brain was so simple that we could understand it, we would be so dumb that we wouldn't manage to do so.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Back To Top-- Marquis de la Grange

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
Back To Top-- Sigmund Freud

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Back To Top-- William Barclay

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Back To Top-- Carl Jung

When I was your age, we didn't have fake doggie-do. We only had real doggie-do, and no one thought it was a damn bit funny.
Back To Top-- Brendan Bassett
Columbia

He who has a why can endure any how.
Back To Top-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Back To Top-- Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
Chessmaster (1887-1956)

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Back To Top-- Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Back To Top-- Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Back To Top-- Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Back To Top-- Henry Ford
(1863-1947)

Do, or do not. There is no "try".
Back To Top-- Yoda
The Empire Strikes Back

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Back To Top-- Buckminster Fuller
(1895-1983)

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.
Back To Top-- Paul Dirac
(1902-1984)

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Back To Top-- Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Back To Top-- Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970)

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Back To Top-- Frank Lloyd Wright
(1868-1959)

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Back To Top-- Mae West
(1892-1980)

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Back To Top-- Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)

Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Back To Top-- Mark Twain
(1835-1910)

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
Back To Top-- Adlai Stevenson
(1900-1965)

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
Back To Top-- Wilson Mizner
(1876-1933)

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Back To Top-- Alan Kay

Never mistake motion for action.
Back To Top-- Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Back To Top-- Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a C, the idea must be feasible.
Back To Top-- Yale University Professor
In response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
Back To Top-- Decca Recording Co.
Rejecting the Beatles, 1962

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Back To Top-- Charles H. Duell
Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
Back To Top-- Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Back To Top-- Tom Clancy

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Back To Top-- Mark Twain
(1835-1910)

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Back To Top-- Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790)

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Back To Top-- Mark Twain
(1835-1910)

The Key To Immortality Is First Living A Life Worth Remembering.
Back To Top-- Brandon Lee

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Back To Top-- Bob Dylan

Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Don't confuse excellence, which is achievable, with perfection, which is elusive.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did---in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming --like the passengers in his car.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Student who is late for class not only makes an attempt to go to class, but also makes an attempt to finish what he started before class began.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
Back To Top-- David Brinkley

Disco is to music what Etch-A-Sketch is to art.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Back To Top-- Baron Henry Peter Brougham

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Back To Top-- G.C. Lichtenberg

Kites rise highest against the wind---not with it.
Back To Top-- Winston Churchill

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Back To Top-- Victor Borge

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Back To Top-- Thomas Dewar

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Back To Top-- George S. Patton

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Back To Top-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you'll never have to worry about your feet.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

I'de trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.
Back To Top-- Kris Kristofferson

It's not what I do, but how to do it. It's not what I say, but how I say it. And how I look when I'm saying and doing it.
Back To Top-- Mae West

All plans between men are tentative. If one man should suddenly meet a woman, it's like these two guys never met each other in life. This is the MALE CODE.
Back To Top-- Jerry Sienfeld

Men have on average 4 billion more brain cells than women.
Back To Top-- Bente Pakkenberg
research project cnn.com, July 28, 1997

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Back To Top-- Frederick Wilcox

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Back To Top-- Elayne Boosler

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you.
Back To Top-- Rita Mae Brown

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Back To Top-- Doug Larson

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Back To Top-- Bertrand Russell

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Back To Top-- Henry Ford

Maybe nothing lasts forever, not the mountains or the sea, but the times we had together, they will always be with me
Back To Top-- The Samples

Beam me up.
Back To Top-- Gary Burris
a 40-year-old convicted killer, in his last words before being executed by injection in Michigan City, Ind.

People say they have to express their emotions. I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
Back To Top-- Berenice Abbott

You put a computer in front of one person, they create the space shuttle. You put it in front of another person they play Doom for five years.
Back To Top-- Phil Hartman
on Politically Incorrect

Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
Back To Top-- Frank Zappa

Some see the glass as half empty; some see the glass as half full. I see the glass as too big.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

If you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything.
Back To Top-- Alice in wonderland

If I dont' see you no more in this world, I'll see you again in the next, and dont' be late
Back To Top-- Jimmi Hendrix

Only the wise man knows you can't touch the stars, but that doesnt' stop the fool from trying.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only, if there is a light within.
Back To Top-- E. Kubler Ross

After a while, you learned the subtle difference between holding a hand and changing a soul. You begin to learn that kisses are not contracts and presents are not promises. You accept your defeats with head up and eyes open, and with the grace of an adult and not the grief's of a child. You learn to build all of your roads on today because tomorrow's ground is to uncertain for plans. So plant your own garden to decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to ring you flowers. Learn that you really are strong, you really can endure, that you really do have worth.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
Back To Top-- S. Ogden

Why don't you come sober, Mr. Prime Minister?
Back To Top-- Lady Astor
Giving a costume ball when a guest, Winston Churchill, asked her what disguise she would recommend for him.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, ore you will learn nothing.
Back To Top-- T.H. Huxley

Man is quite insane, He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates gods by the dozen.
Back To Top-- Michel De Montaigne

It sure would be nice if we got a day off for the president's birthday, like they do for the queen. Of course, then we would have a lot of people voting for a candidate born on July 3 or December 26, just for the long weekends.
Back To Top-- [unknown]
Age 8

For centuries, people thought the moon was made of green cheese. Then the astronauts found that the moon is really a big hard rock. That's what happens to cheese when you leave it out.
Back To Top-- [unknown]
Age 6

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Back To Top-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1/15/1929 - 4/4/1968)

I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeed. But I love my wife; I love my life; And I wish you my kind of success.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
Back To Top-- [unknown]

He who throws dirt looses ground
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Would you like to dance?
Woman turns him down
I'm sorry you must have misunderstood me. I said: You look fat in those pants.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Back To Top-- William James

I used to teach Sunday school. I had the biggest class...I had like 70 kids. But that was because I wore red leather pants to church.
Back To Top-- Tori Amos

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Back To Top-- Erica Jong

At school the more intelligent children learn to play the conformist game: how to pass exams, how to please the teacher, how to do only as much work as necessary. Creativity tends to be left to the rebels who cannot play the right game or do not want to (because they will not excel at it).
Back To Top-- Edward de Bono
from his book "I am Right - You are Wrong"

I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class.
Back To Top-- George Raveling
Washington State basketball coach

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Back To Top-- Anthony Trollope

If you think you can or can't, you're right.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Back To Top-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Some men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after.
Back To Top-- Henry David Thoreau

A womans heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
Back To Top-- Gloria Stuart
Titanic, The Movie

No wait. Let me try to get this out. You're amazing... and I know I have nothing to offer you, Rose. I know that. But I'm involved now. You jump, I jump, remember? I can't turn away without knowin' that you're goin' to be alright. They've got you in a glass jar like some butterfly, and you're goin' to die if you don't break out. Maybe not right away, 'cause you're strong. But sooner or later the fire in you is goin' to go out.
Back To Top-- Leonardo DeCaprio
Titanic, The Movie

. You can't wait around, because you never know what hand you're going to get dealt next. See, my folks died in a fire when I was fifteen, and I've been on the road since. Somethin' like that teaches you to take life as it comes at you. To make each day count.
Back To Top-- Leonardo DeCaprio
Titanic, The Movie

Yes! You are! And my wife... in practice, if not yet by law. So you will honor me, as a wife is required to honor her husband! I will not be made out a fool! Is this in any way unclear?
Back To Top-- Billy Zane
Titanic, The Movie

You're going to get out of this... you're going to go on and you're going to make babies and watch them grow and you're going to die an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here. Not this night. Do you understand me?
Back To Top-- Leonardio DeCaprio
Titanic, The Movie

You must do me this honor... promise me you will survive... that you will never give up... no matter what happens... no matter how hopeless... promise me now, and never let go of that promise.
Back To Top-- Leonardo DeCaprio
Titanic, The Movie

Fifteen hundred people went into the sea when Titanic sank from under us. There were twenty boats floating nearby and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the water, myself included. Six out of fifteen hundred. Afterward, the seven hundred people in the boats had nothing to do but waith... wait to die, wait to live, wait for an absolution which would never come.
Back To Top-- Gloria Stuart
Titanic, The Movie

The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: "I do not know."
Back To Top-- Andre Maurois

At school the more intelligent children learn to play the conformist game: how to pass exams, how to please the teacher, how to do only as much work as necessary.  Creativity tends to be left to the rebels who cannot play the right game or do not want to (because they will not excel at it).
Back To Top-- Edward de Bono
from his book "I am Right - You are Wrong"

No you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
Back To Top-- Neils Bohr

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual *Titanic* passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.
Back To Top-- Libby Gelman-Waxner
in Premiere magazine, on the surprisingly popular movie Titanic

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Back To Top-- Nietzsche

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Back To Top-- Abigail Adams
1780

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Back To Top-- Thomas Henry Huxley

Determine never to be idle. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Back To Top-- Thomas Jefferson

The highest result of education is tolerance.
Back To Top-- Helen Keller
(1880-1968)

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
Back To Top-- Alexander Ledru-Rollin
French politician

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Back To Top-- Washingotn Irving
American essayist

I couldn't wait for success; so I went ahead without it.
Back To Top-- Jonathon Winters

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Back To Top-- Frank A. Clark

Take only your imagination seriously.
Back To Top-- Thomas Berger

I have no respect for a person who can spell a word only one way.
Back To Top-- Mark Twain

I've learned...that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Back To Top-- Winston Churchhill

I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.
Back To Top-- Lord Birkett
British lawyer, Liberal politician. (1883-1962) Quoted in: Observer (London, 30 Oct. 1960).

I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly . . . take a stress pill, and think things over.
Back To Top-- HAL 9000
2001: A Space Odyssey

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Back To Top-- Dr. Joyce Brothers

What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Back To Top-- Margaret Lee Runbeck

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Back To Top-- Mark Twain

Children have more need of models than of critics.
Back To Top-- Carolyn Coats

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because it is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Back To Top-- John W. Gardner

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good.
Back To Top-- Hachim S. Ndiaye

Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money.
Back To Top-- Jack Handey

The bumblebee- a creature that according to aerodynamics experts, should not be able to fly. Apparently unaware of its limitations, it flies anyway.
Back To Top-- Bolman & Deal

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Back To Top-- Charles Kingsley

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Back To Top-- Simone Weil

The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom.
Back To Top-- Thomas Jefferson

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Back To Top-- John Barrymore

We don't need to continue living the way we lived yesterday. Free yourself of that idea and a thousand possibilities beckon to a new life.
Back To Top-- Christian Morgenstern

You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another; and only one interest at a time fills these.
Back To Top-- William Dean Howells
A Hazard of New Fortunes, 1889.

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
Back To Top-- Carol Leifer

O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!
Back To Top-- Michel de Montaigne
(1533-1592)

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Back To Top-- H.L. Mencken

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
Back To Top-- Yiddish proverb

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Back To Top-- G. K. Chesterton
(1874-1936)

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Back To Top-- Aldous Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Back To Top-- Thomas Huxley
(1825-1895)

Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
Back To Top-- [unknown]

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
Back To Top-- Jane Wagner
In The Search For Intelligent Life In The Universe performed by Lily Tomlin

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
Back To Top-- A Bit of Fry and Laurie

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