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Never tell anyone that you're: writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.
- Lynn Johnston
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
- Robert Heinlein
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
- John M. Ford
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I like that one. Been there, done that. :)Quote:
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
- Ogden Nash
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.
Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the h*** wants to hear actors talk?" -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper, on his decision to not take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." -- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris." -- Orville Wright.
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"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
Where would the corporate world be today without sticky notes!!
:D
Bill GatesQuote:
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
- Peter Borden
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
- Lester B. Pearson
The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.
- Tellis Frank
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
- W. Somerset Maugham
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."
- Robert Benchley
"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?"
- Woody Allen
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
- Sue Murphy
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
- Ernest Haskins
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
- William James
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt
Everyone want to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Cary Grant
That's a great one dreamer :D
It was the crytoquote in the newspaper yesterday. Pretty easy to solve too. Actually it was the day before yesterday now. LOL
I don't get the newspaper anymore .... I miss doing the crosswords and jumbles :D
Ok ........ here are today's quotes: :D
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
- William James
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt
"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
- Jules Renard
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein
"All things are difficult before they are easy."
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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If you are going to go through hell, keep going...
Winston Churchill
Those are great Marina :)
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- PD James
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Groucho Marx
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
- AJ Liebling
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- BF Skinner
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
- Evelyn Waugh
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
This is my favorite nerd quote, appropriate for myself and any other computer geek lurkers:
"Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity."
That's great Professor :D
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W. Somerset Maugham
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Never argue with a idiot , they will bring you down to their level and beat with you with experience .
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
- Walter Winchell
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
- Unknown
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
- Warren Beatty
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
- Babe Ruth
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
- Kenneth Tynan
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
Theres one I cant quite remember but the gist is if you find yourself in a hole dont use a backhoe to dig yourself out. :D
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!
Oscar Wilde on his deathbed
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
General Sedgewick, killed in battle 1864, imprudently looking over the parapet at the enemy lines
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Francisco Villa (Pancho Villa)
Good ones 1044 :D
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
- Moby
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
- Gary Zukav
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
- Noel Coward
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- Mark Twain
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
- Fran Lebowitz
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Sir Francis Bacon
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
- Dylan Thomas
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
- Spike Milligan
One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton. Calvin Coolidge
Bulls can make money and Bears can make money, but Hogs just get slaughtered. Wall Street Proverb
No man will take counsel but every man will take money; therefore
money is better than counsel. Jonathan Swift
Those are great :D
People who have time to burn usually spend it with someone who hasn't. Anonymous
You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you. Yogi Berra
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- Hermann Hesse
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
If we learn to cooperate with the inevitable, life can be a joy to the very end.
Albert J. Ni?eth
in this cryptoquote I couldn't figure out the missing letter in the authors name so I put a question mark there.
Neith I believe ;)
thats a good one ID :)