November 2, 2009

Quotes 11/2/09

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
Covert Bailey

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
Niels Bohr

October 17, 2009

Quotes 10/17/09

"There are not yet any obvious signs of extraterrestrial intelligence and this makes us wonder whether civilizations like ours always rush implacably, headlong, toward self-destruction. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars."
Carl Sagan

October 8, 2009

Quotes 10/8/09

Stealing is the new Pirate Bay
Jacob Steffen

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. Milne

September 19, 2009

Quotes 9/19/09

When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke

September 14, 2009

Quotes 9/14/09

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
Napoleon

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 idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray

September 12, 2009

Quotes 9/12/09

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
Roy M. Cohn

Juries scare me. I don't want to put my faith in 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Monica Piper

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Mahatma Gandhi

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous Huxley

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

September 6, 2009

Quotes 9/6/09

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
Winston Churchill

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Lady Nancy Astor

August 27, 2009

Quotes 8/27/09

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
Muhammad Ali

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
Ambrose Bierce

August 23, 2009

Quotes 8/23/09

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle

August 22, 2009

Quotes 8/22/09

Hating me wont make you pretty.
Nathan Astle

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
Johnny Carson

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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