Favorite Quotes

Two paradoxes are better than one;
they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller

"A child of five would understand this.
Send someone to fetch a child of five."
- Groucho Marx

Imagination is more important than knowledge,
for knowledge is limited while imagination
embraces the entire world.
- Albert Einstein

Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C Clarke

"Never laugh at live dragons."
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

"In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night,
No Evil Shall Escape My Sight
Let Those Who Worship Evil's Might
Beware My Power, Green Lantern's Light!"
- DC Comics: The Green Lantern's Oath

Quotes - Favorites

What if nothing exists and we're
all in somebody's dream?
- Woody Allen

"Judge a man by his questions
rather than his answers."
- Voltaire

When an elderly and distinguished scientist tells
you that something is possible, he is very probably
right. When he tells you that something is impossible,
he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

Things are not bad in themselves,
but our cowardice makes them so.
- Michel de Montaigne

God put me on this earth to accomplish a
certain number of things. Right now I am
so far behind that I will never die.
- Bill Watterson

Quotaria

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
- Redd Foxx

He who does not punish evil,
commands it to be done.
- Leonardo da Vinci

CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a
fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but
refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
- Arthur C. Clarke

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you
get to go into the private world of real creeps
without having to smell them.
- Penn Jillette

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
- John N. Mitchell

"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"
- Artemus Ward

Quotes

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves
as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

The more things change, the
more they remain... insane.
- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

The only normal people are the
ones you don't know very well.
- Joe Ancts

For the better part of my childhood, my professional
aspirations were simple--I wanted to be an intergalactic
princess.
- Janet Evanovich, "Seven Up"

‘I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But
the questions are certainly worth thinking about.’
- Arthur C. Clarke

The average man, who does not know what to do with
his life, wants another one which will last forever.
- Anatole France

Quotaria

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes
out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow
enobled and no-one dares criticize it. - Pierre Gallois

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed
to improve the quality of life, please press three."
- Alice Kahn

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth
exactly reversed, when they believed that the
stars controlled the destinies of men. The time
may come when men control the destinies of stars.
- Arthur C. Clarke

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the
sweetness of the rose depends upon the
name it bears. Things are not only what
they are. They are, in very important
respects, what they seem to be.
- Hubert H. Humphrey

In my many years I have come to a
conclusion that one useless man is
a shame, two is a law firm, and three
or more is a congress.
- John Adams

Quotaria

"The only place success comes before
work is in the dictionary."
- Vince Lombardi

"If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the
human race would very soon lose the use of speech."
- W. Somerset Maugham

"I don't have an English accent because this is
what English sounds like when spoken properly."
- James Carr

"All science is either physics
or stamp collecting."
- Ernest Rutherford

"The best measure of a man's honesty
isn't his income tax return. It's the
zero adjust on his bathroom scale."
- Arthur C. Clarke

"I like the dreams of the future better
than the history of the past."
- Thomas Jefferson