December 2009

Hodding Carter Quotations

-Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone. Hodding Carter

Colin Marshall (Sir) Quotations

-The customer doesn’t expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong. Sir Colin Marshall

Denis Diderot Quotations

-The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. -Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. -There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. Denis [...]

Jack Handey Quotations

-I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it. Jack Handey

Alexander Graham Bell Quotations

-The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion… It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider–and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation–persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon [...]

Pliny the Younger Quotations

-Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. Pliny the Younger

Herbert Victor Prochnow Quotations

-A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. Herbert Victor Prochnow

Horace Walpole Quotations

-The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole

Harold B. Walker Quotations

-When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static. The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action. Harold B. Walker

Tom Nolan Quotations

-In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras. Tom Nolan

John Berry Quotations

-The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. John Berry

Frank Wilczek Quotations

-If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. Frank Wilczek