Quotes...

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"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers." - Jimmy Breslin

[NeoN]

"I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that." - Ellen DeGeneres

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away." - Ronald Reagan

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Bill Watterson

[NeoN]

"Houston, we have a problem." - Jim Lovell, APOLLO 13

"There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one." - Laurence J. Peter

"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit." - Sir Frederick G. Banting

"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it." - Pierre Beaumarchais

[NeoN]

"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug." - John Lithgow

"Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself." - Peter da Silva

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." - George Bernard Shaw

[NeoN]

"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp." - Joan Rivers

"Life is an unbroken succession of false situations." - Thornton Wilder

"Let not the sands of time get in your lunch." - National Lampoon

[NeoN]

"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody." - Franklin P. Adams

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane." - Jimmy Buffett

[NeoN]

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Dorothy Nevill

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." - Vince Lombardi

[NeoN]

"There are too many people, and too few human beings." - Robert Zend

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." - William James

[NeoN]

"We can't run from who we are. Our destiny chooses us." - Professor Petrovsky, Rounders

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little." - George Carlin

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it." - Mary Wilson Little

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H. P. Lovecraft

[NeoN]

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." - Henry David Thoreau

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." - Bernard Bailey

"I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't." - Victor Borge

[NeoN]

"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States." - J. Bartlett Brebner

"Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks." - Eric Sevareid

"I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS." - Robert Bakker

[NeoN]

"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are." - Nicholas Chamfort

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." - Frank Leahy

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

[BanzaiBoB]

Buzz Aldrin : "Contact light! OK; engine stop."
Neil Armstrong : "Shutdown"
Buzz Aldrin : "A C A out of detent. Mode control auto"
Neil Armstrong : "Out of detent, auto..."
Buzz Aldrin : "Descent engine command override off. Engine arm off."
Neil Armstrong : "Engine arm is off."
Buzz Aldrin : "Four-thirteen is 'IN'..."

~the very first words spoken by mankind from the surface of the moon~

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

— Michio Kaku, string theorist, City University of New York, Alien Planet, Discovery Channel TV special, 2005.


If a dog had sh*t on the ground one meter from a Viking lander, it would never have detected it.

— Fraser Fanale, regards the Viking 1 technology, NASA meeting on possible Martian biology, 1997.

Be humble for you are made of earth.
Be noble for you are made of stars.
— Serbian proverb

[NeoN]

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd." - Edith Sitwell

"If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln

[NeoN]

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy." - Alfred North Whitehead

"Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies." - Dalton Camp

"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it." - Arthur Schopenhauer