Favorite Quotes

Beast: Head’s up people!! We got ourselves a spatial
anomaly that’d make Captain Picard’s head spin!!
- Uncanny X-men # 345

Jean: I must confess, infuriating and arrogant as gambit can be.. those, eyes, that grin, that body.. it takes a girl’s breath away.
Cyke: oh really? When the next opportunity presents itself.. remind me to drop a truck on him.
Prof: Cyclops
Cyke: A big truck.
Prof: Cyclops!
Cyke: A really big truck
Prof: CYCLOPS!!
Beast: Not to worry professor. While you were away o’l fearless leader here mastered the art.. of deapan humor.
Cyke: Keep calling me that furball and I’ll show you “deadpan”.
- Uncanny X-men # 322

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old
problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination
and marks real advance in science."
- Albert Einstein

We are what we pretend to be, so we
must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007 ), Mother Night

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is
because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature
and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
- Max Planck

Look for the ridiculous in everything
and you will find it.
- Jules Renard

Quotes

Fear is something to be moved through,
not something to be turned from.
- Peter McWilliams

"We'll love you just the way
you are if you're perfect."
- Alanis Morissette

"Sunlight is painting."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"It is not how old you are,
but how you are old."
- Jules Renard

"Money won't create success,
the freedom to make it will."
- Nelson Mandela

"A university is what a college
becomes when the faculty loses
interest in students."
- John Ciardi

Quotaria - PBF2B

"The reason why so few good books are written
is that so few people who can write know anything."
- Walter Bagehot

"Cross country skiing is great
if you live in a small country."
- Steven Wright

"On earth there is no heaven,
but there are pieces of it."
- Jules Renard

"Every drop in the ocean counts."
- Yoko Ono

"Order is power."
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

There are no passengers on Spaceship
Earth. We are all crew.
- Marshall McLuhan

Quotes

"I don't know if God exists,
but it would be better for
His reputation if He didn't."
- Jules Renard

"The coldest winter I ever spent
was a summer in San Francisco."
- Mark Twain

"I don't necessarily agree
with everything I say."
- Marshall McLuhan

"Weeds are flowers too, once
you get to know them."
- A. A. Milne

"You must first have a lot of patience
to learn to have patience."
- Stanislaw J. Lec

"The great thing about democracy is that it gives
every voter a chance to do something stupid."
- Art Spander

Quotes

"Of all things visible, the highest
is the heaven of the fixed stars."
- Nicolaus Copernicus

"Every man is the architect
of his own fortune."
- Sallust

"Writing is the only profession where no one
considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
- Jules Renard

"A little learning is a dangerous thing
but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."
- Bob Edwards

"Drawing on my fine command of the
English language, I said nothing."
- Robert Benchley

"When all is said and done,
more is said than done."
- Lou Holtz

Quotes

"The first time I see a jogger
smiling, I'll consider it."
- Joan Rivers

"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness;
there is also the success of others."
- Jules Renard

"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut
our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!"
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"We cannot command Nature
except by obeying her."
- Francis Bacon

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

It is better to be hated for what you are,
than to be loved for what you are not!
- Andre Gide