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Once you have them by the balls,
their hearts and minds will follow.
- Attributed to Teddy Roosevelt
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We have art in order
not to die of the truth.
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Play that funky music, white boy.
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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
- W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming
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At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.
Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
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Who are you?
He never gave me a name. Then why do you now weep for him? He was my father.
- Explorer questioning the monster
about Victor Frankenstein, in the movie
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
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Thank god it worked.
- Robert Oppenheimer's FIRST thought, upon witnessing the first nuclear explosion. |
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Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
- Robert Oppenheimer's SECOND thought,
upon witnessing the first nuclear explosion.
from the Baghivad Gita.
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?
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Well, I had to leave town
because of Uncle Sam's deal. I guess my good lovin' done lost its appeal. |
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The finest years I ever knew
Were all the years I had with you And I would give anything I own Give up my life, my heart, my home ...
- Written by David Gates
of the group Bread
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Belief in the supernatural reflects
a failure of the imagination.
- American author Edward Abbey
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Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
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No one shall expel us from the paradise
that Cantor has created for us.
- Mathematician David Hilbert, referring to
Georg Cantor, the mathematician who
made infinity real.
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And those who were seen dancing
were thought to be insane by those
who could not hear the music.
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God does not exist,
and Paul Dirac is his prophet. |
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God don't make no mistakes.
That's how He got to be God.
- Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker
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There aren't enough Indians in the world
to defeat the Seventh Cavalry
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In science one tries to tell people, in such
a way as to be understood by everyone,
something that no one ever knew before.
But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- English physicist Paul Dirac
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Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
- Attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt 1
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So your sickness weighs a ton.
And god's name is Smack to some. |
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We learn from history that
we do not learn from history.
- German Philosopher
Georg Friedrich Hegel
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There are rhythms in the world waiting
for words to be written to them
- Written by Dream Expert Patricia Garfield
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A man'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open.
But even the Devil can't fool a dog!
- From Twilight Zone Episode: The Hunt.
Written by Earl Hamner Jr. |
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When we are tired, we are attacked
by ideas we conquered long ago.
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Those who vote decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.
It’s enough that the people know
there has been a vote.
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MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark,
All the sweet green icing flowing down.
Someone left the cake out in the rain ...
- Written by Richard Harris
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The tragedy of life is not that man loses,
but that he almost wins.
- Journalist Heywood Broun
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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You're an errand boy, sent by
grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
- Kurtz (M. Brando) to Martin Sheen, Apocolypse Now,
after Sheen says he's an assassin come to kill Kurtz.
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Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
- Attributed to Pablo Picasso
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I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found
it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
- Charles Darwin
(Personally, I believe Shakespeare is the most
overrated writer in recent centuries. -JR)
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We feel that even if all possible scientific
questions be answered, the problems of
life have still not been touched at all.
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I always keep a supply of liquor handy in
case I see a snake- which I also keep handy.
- Attributed to W. C. Fields
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood,
but the opposite of one profound truth
may very well be another profound truth.
- Danish physicist Niels Bohr
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A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air.
A psychotic is the man who lives in it.
A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
- Playwrite Jerome Lawrence, with Robert Edwin Lee.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in
the best of all possible worlds; and
the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell.
(Often misattributed to Robert Oppenmeimer.)
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