"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." - last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." - Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
"Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Yogi Berra
"There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole." - Bill Wulf
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"Write drunk; edit sober." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Famous Quotations by famous People..2
"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault." - Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Love is friendship set on fire." - Jeremy Taylor
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate." - Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was
"Woman was God's second mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
"He would make a lovely corpse." - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb
"I worship the quicksand he walks in." - Art Buchwald
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." - Paul Valery (1871-1945)
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
"#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.
"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." - Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need." - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Love is friendship set on fire." - Jeremy Taylor
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate." - Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was
"Woman was God's second mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"This isn't right, this isn't even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
"He would make a lovely corpse." - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb
"I worship the quicksand he walks in." - Art Buchwald
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned." - Paul Valery (1871-1945)
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
"#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.
"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." - Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need." - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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