Quotes

"...to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.": - Oscar Wilde
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.": - Albert Camus
"Of course I can explain what I was talking about - just as soon as you explain why you interrupted me.": - unknown
"It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don't normally impinge on the world because the extra dimensions are very small and curve in on themselves, and that since reality is fractal most of it is tucked inside itself. This means either that the universe is more full of wonders than we can hope to understand or, more probably, that scientists make things up as they go along.": - Pyramids, Terry Pratchett
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.": - Howard Aiken
"If it moves, it's biology. If it explodes, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics.": - unknown
"In popular culture, our musicians sing to us in our own voice. In mass culture they shout what we want to hear.": - unknown
"Like flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.": - Gloucester, King Lear.
"Nothing but stars, scattered across the blackness as though the Creator had smashed the windscreen of his car and hadn't bothered to stop to sweep up the pieces.": - Pyramids, Terry Pratchett
"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.": - Gene Wilder, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
"Get busy living or get busy dying.": - unknown
"Don't let fear stand in the way of your dreams.": - unknown
"What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express! how admirable in action! how like an angel in apprehension! how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?": - Hamlet
"We may not have an equality of talent. We may not have an equality of experience. But we may be equal in aspiration. We can be equal in commitment.": - unknown
"Life is full of little surprises.": - unknown
"They never let you live it down. One little mistake.": - unknown
"I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.": - Oscar Wilde
"This world is not conclusion; A sequel stands beyond, Invisible, as music, But positive, as sound. It beckons and it baffles; Philosophies don't know And though a riddle, at the last, Sagacity must go. To guess it puzzles scholars; To gain it, men have shown Contempt of generations, And crucifixion known.": - Emily Dickenson
"Tis better to remain silent and be thought an idiot, ...than to speak and remove all doubt": - unknown
All the worlds a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.": - Shakespeare - As You Like It
"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon. I want to know his thoughts, the rest are details.": - Albert Einstein
"God does not play dice": - Albert Einstein
"Today will be yesterday tomorrow": - unknown
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but "That's funny..." ": - Isaac Asimov
"We do it, so that something may be left of us, for none of us are immortal": - unknown
"That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.": - 'Doc' Edgerton
"The greatest enjoyment in life comes from living dangerously.": - unknown
"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ": - Vilhjalmur Stefansson
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.": - Stella Adler
"How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly, we take the hint.": - Robert Frost
"To everything there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to breakdown, and a time to build up; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace.": - Ecclesiastes 3
"`You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It's unpleasantly like being drunk.' `What's so unpleasant about being drunk?' `You ask a glass of water.'": - Arthur getting ready for his first jump into hyperspace.
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
"The first ten million years were the worst,' said Marvin, `and the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.": - Marvin reflecting back on his 576,000,003,579 year career as Milliways' car park attendant.
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.": - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
shiúileas lá cois trá -- shiúileas go híochtar trá -- rinne tonn súgradh le tonn -- ligh a cúr bán mo chosa -- d'árdaáos mo shiúil go mall 'gus ansiúd amuigh ar an domhain in aimhréidh cúir agus toinne chonaic an t-uaigneas i do shiúil 'gus an doilíos i do ghnúis: - Aimhréidh, Caitlín Maude
"Trillian did a little research in the ship's copy of THHGTTG. It had some advice to offer on drunkenness. `Go to it,' it said, `and good luck.' It was cross-referenced to the entry concerning the size of the Universe and ways of coping with that.": - Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams
"I love to revel in philosophical matters -- especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and I have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.": - Letter from Mark Twain, San Francisco Alta California, Aug. 1, 1869
"We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.": - Mark Twain - Notebook #22, Spring 1883 - Sept. 1884
"To believe yourself to be brave is to be brave; it is the only essential thing.": - Mark Twain
"The sky is my canopy, the earth is my blanket. The sun, moon, and stars accompany me in my sleep. At night, I dare not stretch out my legs, fearing that I might trample the sky at the end of the sea.: - Dharma Words
"Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.": - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.": - Ralph Vaull Starr
"No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.": - unknown
"Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence; sound is that cup, but empty; noise is that cup, but broken.": - unknown
"He tried to think, and found it was surprisingly easy. New ideas were pouring into his mind in a cold, clear stream. They had to do with the play of light on the rocks, the deep blue of the sky, the manifold possibilities of the world that stretched away on every side of him.": - Pyramids, Terry Pratchett
"Instead of fixing all the year 2000 problems, why don't we just start over at the year 1900?": - Julia Al
"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.": - Edmund Burke
"Do what you like, Like what you do.": - unknown
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.": - Erica Jong
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.": - Lin Yutang
"It's a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.": - Pyramids, Terry Pratchett
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.": - Arthur C. Clarke
"Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.": - Blore's Razor
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.": - Mark Twain
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.": - Peter Ustinov
"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.": - Mark Russell
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.": - Anonymous
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.": - Sean O'Casey
"Silence is the field of creative musical intelligence which dwells in the space between the notes, and holds them in place.": - unknown