The movie The Graduate was talking about that moment in time when you have this world of possibilities, all these expectations, and you don't know who it is you're supposed to be. And you choose this one path, Mrs. Robinson, and it turns out to be bleak, but it's part of your initiation, your trial by fire. And then, by choosing the wrong path, you find your way onto the right path, but you've created this mess. Fight Club is the Nineties inverse of that: a guy who does not have a world of possibilities in front of him, he has no possibilities, he literally cannot imagine a way to change his life. ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. ~Brander Matthews
I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell? ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. ~James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937
Golf is a good walk spoiled. ~Mark Twain
Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? ~Steve Polyak
We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ~Ansel Adams
No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. ~Thomas Mann
Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. ~Ninon de Lenclos
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~Henry Van Dyke
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. ~Edith Wharton
Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose. ~Albert Einstein
Wine is bottled poetry. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift.... The hangover comes the day after. ~Joyce Brothers
When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. ~Philip Adams
A rolling stone gathers no moss. ~Publilius Syrus
The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory, in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system. "But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." Matthew 5:37 ~Author Unknown
When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. ~David Orr
My wife tells me she doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I'm not enjoying it. ~Lee Trevino
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