Miscellaneous is always the largest category.
Joel Rosenberg, "The Warrior Lives"
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life
forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid
meeting.
Douglas Adams, "Life, the Universe, and Everything"
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Brooks Adams
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Jean Louis Agassiz
I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a
dead horse.
Woody Allen
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle
[John] Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed
during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who
are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately
destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the
existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the
integrity of man.
Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Barbarella
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Paul Beatty
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
We have deep depth.
Yogi Berra
We made too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra
A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Belladonna: In Italian, a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you
do not entertain.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state
religion.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have
taken place.
Claude T. Bissell
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of
difficulties underlying contemporary theory. . .
A. A. Blasov
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he
can blame it on.
Robert Bloch
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something
else anyway.
Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane
I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from
you.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
Ashleigh Brilliant
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong
direction.
Ashleigh Brilliant
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the
target.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. Ashleigh Brilliant Difficulties are meant
to rouse, not discourage.
William Ellery Channing
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who
hate them.
Emile Chartier
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as
equals.
Winston Churchill
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill
It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them
into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than
wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.
J.W. Curran
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our
institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
Fans are interesting things. Rush fans just can't comprehend why the rest of
the world doesn't like Rush. Rem fans consider the rest of the world beneath
their social level to notice. Kate Bush fans love the rest of the world, and
the world loves them, but spend long nights plotting to knife one another.
Richard Darwin, "Gradenza"
I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
Miles Davis
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Charles G. Dawes
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead
of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men. We owe most of what we
have suffered to another hundred or so.
R.W. Dickson
Get your cut throat off my knife.
Diane Diprima, "Nightmare Gallery"
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppresiion. It is in such
twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air--however
slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
W. O. Douglas
How often have I said to you that when you heve eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sherlock Holmes in "The Sign of Four" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890
The principle of maximum diversity operates both at the physical and at the
mental level. It says that the laws of nature and the initial conditions are
such as to make the universe as interesting as possible. As a result, life
is possible but not too easy. Always when things are dull, something new
turns up to challenge us and to stop us from settling into a rut. Examples
of things which make life difficult are all around us: comet impacts, ice
ages, weapons, plagues, nuclear fission, computers, sex, sin and death. Not
all challenges can be overcome, and so we have tragedy. Maximum diversity
often leads to maximum stress. In the end we survive, but only by the skin
of our teeth.
Freeman Dyson, "Infinite in All Directions"
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight
line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Sir Arthur Eddington
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean
it's useless.
Thomas Alva Edison
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The
latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to
hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own
reasons for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the
mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is
enough if one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never
lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
