Showing posts with label Jacques Yves Cousteau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jacques Yves Cousteau. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2009

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"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds
one in its net of wonder forever."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"The reverse side also has a reverse side."
- Japanese Proverb

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certain flaws are necessary for
the whole. It would seem strange
if old friends lacked certain quirks.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to
find disordered minds; our planet is
the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
(I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Quotaria

"Not every story has explosions and car chases.
That's why they have nudity and espionage."
- Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

"I would rather be exposed to the
inconveniences attending too much
liberty than to those attending
too small a degree of it."
- Thomas Jefferson

"We forget that the water cycle
and the life cycle are one."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"In the spring, at the end of the
day, you should smell like dirt."
- Margaret Atwood

"Even if one tree falls down it
wouldn't affect the entire forest."
- Chen Shui-bian

"Everything in excess
is opposed to nature."
- Hippocrates