Quotes


I have quotes posted all around my page, but most of them are right here in my quotes section. I'm thinking about getting rid of the odds and ends section and just turn it into nothing but quotes...we'll see....


"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
Tom Clancy
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"640k ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates
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"Anything that is to stupid to be spoken is sung."
Voltaire
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"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks that you take."
Adlai Stevenson
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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one."
Albert Einstein
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back at you."
Friedrich Niezsche
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein
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"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy, if not, you'll become a philosopher."
Socrates
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies"
Aristotle
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"I don't believe in the afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."
Isaac Asimov
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"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
Niels Bohr
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"The dreadful burden of having nothing to do"
Nicolas Boileau
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"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories"

"It has yet to be proven that itteligence has any survival value"

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him."
Arthur C. Clarke
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"What sane person could live in the world and not be crazy?"
Ursula K. Le Guin
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the myseterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"Learn from yesterday, live for tomorrow, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein
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"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
Franz Kafka
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels."
Francisco de Goya
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Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

George Burns
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
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You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
Dick Armey
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Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.

Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman.

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen
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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

There are two kinds of truths: small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth.

Neils Bohr
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius
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