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"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"It is sometimes said that science has nothing to do with morality. This is wrong. Science is the search for truth, the effort to understand the world; it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality." -- Linus Pauling, one of the 15 scientists chosen
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, U.S. Scientists
"I like to build things. I like to do things." -- Walter Chrysler
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Walter Chrysler
"I owned the world that hour as I rode over it ... free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them." -- Charles Lindbergh
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Charles Lindbergh
"Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded ... as a hostile regime." -- George W. Bush
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, George W. Bush
"I like to play saxophone because you don't inhale." -- Bill Clinton
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Bill Clinton
"Read my lips — NO NEW TAXES!" -- George Bush
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, George Bush
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Ronald Reagan
"One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations ... is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat." -- Jimmy Carter
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Jimmy Carter
"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue." -- Richard M. Nixon
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Richard M. Nixon
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read 'President Can't Swim'." -- Lyndon B. Johnson
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Lyndon B. Johnson
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog." -- Dwight Eisenhower
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Dwight Eisenhower
"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell." -- Harry Truman
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Harry Truman
"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little." -— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"[Americans] are the great Satan, the wounded snake." -- Ayatullah Khomeini
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Ayatullah Khomeini
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." -- Nikita Khrushchev
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Nikita Khrushchev
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." -- Joseph Stalin
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Joseph Stalin
"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." -- Adolf Hitler
via TIME Person of the Year: A Photo History, Adolf Hitler
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." -- Ben Williams, American Editor & Journalist (1877-1964)
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally." -- W. C. Fields
spotted on Brainyquote
Talking about the new Toyota plant in France which will produce a new model called the Saris: "This new French Toyota comes with standard features like five gears - all reverse - and a white flag on the antenna."
spotted on SIRIUS Satellite Radio - Entertainment Talk Radio – Listen to the talk radio on SIRIUS Satellite Radio – SIRIUS Stars
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
found on Rob Costlow - My Piano and More
“A miracle for one of us is a miracle for all of us.” -- Michelle Diekmeyer, cancer survivor
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." -- Erica Jong
found on Women's Art Gallery - YWCA Cincinnati
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." -- Henry David Thoreau
"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know." -- Cullen Hightower
"An executive at Disney will be in a meeting and ask the staff how many people knew this was going on, and three geeks in the back will raise their hands. Then slowly two-thirds of the room will raise their hands. None of these people will have known that everyone already knew. It's about then that podcasting will suddenly become the rage. It'll be a Time magazine cover. That will be by the middle of next year. Then the money will start flying around like crazy." -- John C. Dvorak
spotted on CURRY.COM: Adam Curry's Weblog
"Don't worry about avoiding temptation, as you grow older, it will avoid you." -- Winston Churchill
"We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way
through Congress." -- Will Rogers
"Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty... but everything else starts
to wear out, fall out, or spread out." -- Phyllis Diller
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." -- WC. Fields
"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life." -- Herbert Henry Asquith
"I am opposed to millionaires... but it would be dangerous to offer me the
position." -- Mark Twain
"Money can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form
of misery." -- Spike Milligan
"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying." -- Ed Furgol
"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat." -- Alex Levine
"I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back." -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and
kindness, can be trained to do most things." -- Jilly Cooper
"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce." -- Mark Twain
"Having toured Sri Lanka with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist after the Indian Ocean tsunami in December, it saddens me to report that the devastation I've seen here at home is equal to that which I witnessed half a world away.
"Our nation came to the aid of the tsunami victims then, and to hurricane victims in Central America before. I am deeply moved to see us come together with the same love and fellowship today, as millions of Americans have rallied to support their brothers and sisters on the Gulf Coast." -- Mary Landrieu, United States Senator from Louisiana, about the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005
via The Washington Post article "We'll Need Your Help"
"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarian and we're skeptical." -- Charles Schultz
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." -- Mark Twain
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." -- Groucho Marx
"Podcasting has been legitimized by an unyielding grass-roots community and now the business of podcasting enjoys the endorsement of leading media companies, marketers and venture investors." -- "Podfather" Adam Curry, PodShow co-founder and President, via PodShow, Inc. press release, as reported in Yahoo! Finance
Early this morning I uploaded the first offical podcast episode of my other blog, Journey Inside My Mind! Head over and check it out! Or not.
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get
a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." -- Socrates
"Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year." -- Victor Borge
"If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now, quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers..." -- Homer Simpson
"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops
to breathe." -- Jimmy Durante
"Life becomes more precious when there's less of it to waste." -- Bonnie Raitt, spotted at Cincinnati Mills
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." -- Mark Twain
"By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere." -- Billy Crystal
"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." -- W.C. Fields
"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon; Then it's time for my nap." -- Bob Hope
"I am opposed to millionaires... but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." -- Mark Twain
"Money can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." -- Spike Milligan
"I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.
"There is nothing else that so kils the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise." -- Charles Schwab
"Action springs out of what we fundamentally desire... and the best peice of advice which can be given to would-be persuaders, whether in business, in the home, in the school, in politics, is: First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way." -- Harry A. Overstreet
"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own." -- Henry Ford
"Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year." -- Victor Borge
"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible." -- George Burns
"How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on." -- spotted outside the restrooms at the local Tumbleweed restaurant
"I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody." -- Benjamin Franklin, former American Ambassador to France
"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver." -- Maya Angelou
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi, found on a "Recipe for the Soul"
"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." -- William Blake, found on a "Recipe for the Soul"
"When I'm raising my kids, I sometimes feel like I'm being initiated into a fraternity." -- Dave Dugan, comedian and corporate speaker
found on bobandtom.com
"Our belly buttons aren't pretty and we can't dance. All we can do is sing and play these instruments." -- Don Henley of the Eagles, comparing his aging band to the likes of Britney Spears during a concert in New York, quoted in the New York Post.
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew." -- Saint Francis de Sales, 17th Century Bishop of Geneva
via an e-mail newsletter from Get Organized Now!
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." -- Mark Twain
"When I'm reminded [about my role as Luke Skywalker] is at the airport, or the grocery store, and you're berated by some parent because their child is spending way too much money on 'Star Wars' merchandise. Like I have anything to do with that!" -- Mark Hamill
"The market for something to believe in is infinite." -- Hugh Macleod
spotted at Creating Passionate Users: They Want To Believe...
"One changes from day to day... every few years one becomes a new being." -- George Sand
"The final mystery is oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?" -- Oscar Wilde
"I told him, 'If you screw up being an actor, you could be a crane operator.'" -- Louis Cavana, Brooklyn dockworker, who taught Tom Cruise how to operate a crane for his role in "War of the Worlds," quoted in the New York Daily News.
via Notable Quotes - Yahoo! News
"I was a librarian that spent 12 hours a day in the library. Yet somehow I met George." -- First lady Laura Bush at the White House correspondents dinner
via Notable Quotes - Yahoo! News
"I said to him the other day, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is in bed and I am watching 'Desperate Housewives' -- with Lynne Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife." -- First lady Laura Bush at the White House correspondents dinner.
Notable Quotes - Yahoo! News
"Ours is much hotter because Vincent Price is not as hot as me and Elisha Cuthbert." -- Paris Hilton, comparing the remake of the horror film "House of Wax" with the 1953 original, in the New York Post.
via Notable Quotes - Yahoo! News
"I'm enjoying the relationship and to be honest with you I didn't think I would." -- George H.W. Bush, former President, on his unlikely friendship with former President Bill Clinton, quoted in the New York Daily News
via Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes
"At the end of a letter I like to write, 'P.S. — This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.'" -- Mitch Hedberg, comedian
found on Mitch Hedberg - Wikiquote
"I'm not that much of a ladies' man. Romantic things people do - like putting candles around the house - I see that as more of a fire hazard." -- Jimmy Fallon, actor, in the New York Daily News
via Oddly Enough - Reuters | Notable Quotes
"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King." -- Emily Dickinson
"I don't do anything anymore that feels safe. If it doesn't scare the crap out of you, then you're not doing the right thing." -- Sandra Bullock, now starring in 'Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous,' on choosing her movie roles.
via Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes
"It was a health issue. If I had to see the name Star Jones or Star Jones Reynolds one more time, it was going to kill me. I thought, 'Why do I know the name of Paris Hilton's dog?'" -- Joyce Wadler telling the New York Daily News how she feels about giving up writing a celebrity news column for The New York Times.
via Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes
"Everybody keeps telling me that. Maybe Sharon is but I don't know f--- all about it." -- Ozzy Osbourne, asked by the New York Post about reports that he and wife Sharon are selling their Beverly Hills home.
via Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes
"It's a tear jerker. So far the women in the audiences have consistently cried through the second half...it works as an emotional tragedy." -- George Lucas, Star Wars creator, about Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
via NewsRadio 700WLW: SITHIES
"My son said, 'It's so embarrassing having you talk all the time on TV about being gay and you picking me up at school in painter's pants.' I told him, 'Yeah, yeah, keep it for your book." -- Rosie O'Donnell, quoted in the New York Daily News.
via Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes
"Here is the order it would go in before I would get to the 'Moonlighting' reunion show. I would become a judge on 'American Idol.' I would be the center square on 'Hollywood Squares' where it would be, 'I'll take Bruce Willis to block please." -- Bruce Willis on the unlikely possibility of a reunion show with Cybill Shepherd, quoted in the New York Daily News.
via Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes
"The rigid rubber and wire band is approximately 1 inch wide. The transmitter is approximately 4 inches by 3 inches and is somewhat uncomfortable and irritating. It also makes exercise difficult. I wish it were removable but it is not. I am not allowed to take it off at any time and I am not allowed, while in my home, to have any padding under the strap." -- Martha Stewart in an online chat with fans, describing the anklet monitor she must wear while under house arrest, according to the New York Daily News.
via Yahoo! News - Notable Quotes
"I need a budget item for a bail bondsman -- for both of them." -- Michael Mann, director, commenting on the hell-raising reputations of Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, who will star in his movie version of "Miami Vice," quoted in the New York Daily News.
"People have approached me about putting them in a book and offered more money than it's worth. I grew up around people who talked that way, and I try to use colorful language. Some of them I make up and some I've heard before." -- Dan Rather, outgoing CBS anchorman, on his folksy 'Ratherism,' quoted in the Austin American-Statesman
via Reuters Notable Quotes
"Maybe there are different ways I would define myself. But I can tell you that my biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person." -- Mike Tyson, former boxing star, found in Reuters Notable Quotes
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spotted at the library
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." -- Frank Sinatra
found at Biz Stone, Genius: Weird Spam
"Always remember that a day without sunshine is like... night." -- Steve Martin
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"Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life." -- Confucius
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"Laura and I are saddened by the death of Johnny Carson. Born in Iowa and raised in Nebraska, Johnny Carson was a steady and reassuring presence in homes across America for three decades. His wit and insight made Americans laugh and think and had a profound influence on American life and entertainment. He was a patriot who served in the United States Navy during World War II and always remembered his roots in the heartland of America. We send our prayers and condolences to the entire Carson family." -- President George W. Bush
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"I like to think of this festival as a festival of dissent, and I'd like to celebrate that." -- Robert Redford, Sundance Film Festival founder, kicking off the annual event in Park City, Utah, with a political tone
via Reuters Notable Quotes
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"We are bone dry." -- -Phil Rosenthal, "Everybody Loves Raymond" co-creator, saying the show is ending after nine years because the creative team has simply run out ideas.
via Reuters Notable Quotes
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"Sitting between the two of them I have to hear the guy banter that goes on, and sometimes, I have to say, 'Excuse me, in case you forgot, there is a female sitting in the room.'" -- Paula Abdul telling the New York Daily News about her experiences as an "American Idol" judge with Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson, via Reuters Notable Quotes
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"I just thought maybe those people really needed the money." -- Daniel Kushner, 6, of Cincinnati, who raided his piggy bank for $10 to help the victims of the tsunami disaster. [via NYT], found on ME AND OPHELIA
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"People who refer to themselves as intellectuals are automatically committing a social crime and, also, usually an error." -- Tracy Young
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"Nouveau is better than no riche at all." -- Monsieur Marc
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"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." -- Mark Twain
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"The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life." -- Glenda Jackson
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"What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean." -- Christopher Fry
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"Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you." -- Elbert Hubbard
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"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." -- Thomas Mann
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"She was a lovely girl. Our courtship was fast and furious -- I was fast and she was furious." -- Max Kauffman
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"Marriage is a great institution; but I'm not ready for an institution." -- Mae West
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"If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me." -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." -- H. L. Mencken
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"He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news." -- Bertolt Brecht
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"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be around when it happens." -- Woody Allen
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"Familiarity breeds contempt... and children. -- Mark Twain
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