Quotable Quotes

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Albert Einstein


Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
- Raymond Chandler

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
- Putt's Law

"It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key." - Sergey Brin


Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. - Helen Rowland

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that! - Matt Frewer


Momma always says there's an awful lot you could tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been. I've worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard I could remember my first pair of shoes. Momma said they'd take me anywhere. She said they was my magic shoes.
- Forrest Gump played by actor Tom Hanks


After a brief hiatus, I am going to resume :)

Some random movie quotes:

From the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Benjamin Button: Your life is defined by its opportunities... even the ones you miss.


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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going." - George Carlin

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes! - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise. - Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone." - Anthony Burgess

"French is the language that turns dirt into romance." - Stephen King

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. - Joan D. Vinge

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. - Ralph W. Sockman

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

"The key to a healthy marriage is to keep your eyes wide open before you wed and half-closed thereafter." Benjamin Franklin

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. - Groucho Marx

Don't walk as if you rule the world, walk as if you don't care who rules the world!

"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck." - George Carlin

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. - Evan Esar

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." -
Charles Kettering

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow. - Evan Esar

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. - Robert Copeland

"I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -W.B. Yeats

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. - Willie Tyler

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. - Clint Eastwood