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Nobody ever did anything that wasn't a verb. - Athayde The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. You shall love your crooked neighbor. With your crooked heart. - W H Auden As quick as boiled asparagus. A radish may know no Greek but I do. - Augustus...

Music is a mediator between spiritual and sensual life. - Ludwig Van Beethoven A critic is like a eunuch in a harem. He's right there every night. He sees it done every night. He sees how it should be done every night. But he cannot do it himself. I have never seen a situation so...

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but "That's funny...". - Isaac Asimov Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Khalil Gibran...

The Cowboy Code 1. A cowboy never takes unfair advantage -- even of an enemy. 2. A cowboy never betrays a trust. 3. A cowboy always tells the truth. 4. A cowboy is kind to small children, to old folks, and to animals. 5. A cowboy is free from racial and religious prejudice. 6...

Thinkers, and during the pioneer era are self. - Orod Bozorg If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it. - Hannes Alfvern Never play cards with a man named Doc, never eat at a place named Mom's...

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money. - Leon Lederman We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. - W.H. Auden Sunset human life, rise to the other world. - Orod Bozorg...

Hypocrisy is better than no standards at all. -Bill Bennett Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot 'cause you can't get a man with a gun. - Irving Berlin Bach is Bach just as God is God. -...

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer Artists are the future builders. - Orod Bozorg You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone...

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." The rule is: jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today. - Lewis Carroll When it comes to a wife, give me a woman everytime. - Joyce Cary Manhood begins when...

LA doesn't have the heart of a paper cup. She was a blond who could make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. LA is a mail order city. Everything you can get in the catalog you can get better somewhere else. They knocked over tombs and sneered at the dead. Which is only as it...

A woman of forty whose fine skin and clear features could be counted among her organizational gifts. ...the essence of her beauty was disenchantment. ...it looked as if it had been put together by old ladies and mice. ...where people drank their gin surrounded by the relics of an...

When one man finds the way, his chickens and dogs ascend to heaven. Eight immortals cross the sea; each shows a saintly passage. The sky is high; the emperor is far away. When you mention Cao Cao, he soon arrives. Never pull on your shoes in a melon patch; never adjust your cap under...

There is a connection between neurosis and talent but there is also a connection between genius and mental illness. - John Cleese I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am forever shocking. - Jean Cocteau Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for...

It was blackness without a single gleam. It was solemn, and a little ridiculous, too, these struggles of an individual trying to save from the fire his idea of his moral identity. A confounded democratic quality of vision which may be better than total blindness but has been of no...

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - Henri Frederic Amiel Organic chemistry is the study of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. - Mike Adams It is not our abilities...

Technology is great as long as you don't try to use it. - Ian Campbell A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every...

The supreme geopolitical fact of the modern era is that Americans speak English. - Otto von Bismarck All great events begin with the pulsation of an artery. - William Blake Weather! This isn't weather! This is divine vengeance! I got my **** together and found I couldn't...

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words do permanent damage. When things aren't going well, it's easier to blame someone else. There is nothing more boring than people who love you. - Eric Bogosian It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature...

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me. I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot...

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone King incorrupt, the employee is not wicked. - Orod Bozorg The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum and light but the shadow of God - Sir Thomas Browne The...