Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
~quote about Goals by C.D. Jackson
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
~quotes on Computers by M.G. Siriam
Is death the last sleep? No--it is the last and final awakening
~sayings on Death by Sir Walter Scott
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
~quotations on Integrity by Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother. To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation.
~quotes from the movie blow by Louis Fabian Bachrach
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
~saying about from the movie blow by Booker T. Washington
The old theory was "Marry an older man, because they're more mature." But the new theory is: "Men don't matureMarry a younger one."
~quote about Women's Greetings by Rita Rudner
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
~quotes on Mothers by Meryl Streep
Obesity is really widespread.
~sayings on Dieting by Joseph O. Kern II
Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
~quotations on Love by Author Unknown
what you do is what you get
~quotes from the movie blow by
I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?
~saying about from the movie blow by Paul Merton
Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
~quote about Missing You by Richard Bach
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
~quotes on Life by Havelock Ellis
I knew a man who once said, death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.
~sayings on Death by From the movie Gladiator
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
~quotations on Speaking by Robert Quillen
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
~quotes from the movie blow by George F. Will
Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.
~saying about from the movie blow by From the television show The Wonder Years
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
~quote about Celebrity by Groucho Marx
Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?
~quotes on Patriotism by Adlai Stevenson
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
~sayings on America by John Updike
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening
~quotations on New Year by Hamilton Wright Mabie
I am my kid's mom
~quotes from the movie blow by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
~saying about from the movie blow by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers.
~quote about Humankind by Albert Camus
Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
~quotes on Parenting by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
One thousand Americans stop smoking every day - by dying.
~sayings on Smoking by Author Unknown
Education is the transmission of civilization.
~quotations on Education by Ariel and Will Durant
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody
~quotes from the movie blow by Adlai Stevenson
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
~saying about from the movie blow by William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918
Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
~quote about Haste by Robert James Waller
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything
~quotes on Cool by Unknown
Live simply that others might simply live.
~sayings on Helping by Elizabeth Seaton
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
~quotations on Genius by Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
~quotes from the movie blow by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
~saying about from the movie blow by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests.
~quote about Mothers by Author Unknown
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
~quotes on Poverty by Heinrich Heine
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