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"Sometimes I've believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll

"What you do speaks so loud that
I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For your information, I would
like to ask a question."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"At times I think and at times I am."
- Paul Valery

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
- Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2 : My Folks, p. 13

"Consistency requires you to be as
ignorant today as you were a year ago."
- Bernard Berenson

Quotes - Favorites

"Where love rules, there is no will to power
and where power predominates, there love is
lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
- Carl Jung

"Even stones have a love, a
love that seeks the ground".
- Meister Eckhart

Brave men are all vertebrates; they
have their softness on the surface
and their toughness in the middle.
- Lewis Carrol

"Liberty without learning is always in peril;
learning without liberty is always in vain."
- John F. Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly
can ever achieve greatly.
~ Robert F. Kennedy

Nothing is particularly hard if
you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford

Quotaria

I am kind of a paranoiac in
reverse. I suspect people of
plotting to make me happy.
- J. D. Salinger

I disapprove of what you say, but will
defend to the death your right to say it.
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Alice came to a fork in the road.
'Which road do I take?' she asked.
'Where do you want to go?', responded the Cheshire cat.
'I don't know.' Alice answered.
'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

We can only prohibit that which we can name.
- George Steiner, After Babel, 1973.

"Realism...has no more to do with
reality than anything else."
- Hob Broun

"A positive attitude may not solve all your
problems, but it will annoy enough people
to make it worth the effort."
- Herm Albright

Quotes

"There are two things that will be believed
of any man whatsoever, and one of them is
that he has taken to drink."
- Booth Tarkington

"I am really a sea creature. Just
a mammal that lost its fins."
- Kathleen Quinlan

'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
  'To talk of many things:
Of shoes --and ships --and sealing wax --
  Of cabbages --and kings --
And why the sea is boiling hot --
  And whether pigs have wings.'
-Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter

"A lie is a sort of myth,
and a myth is a sort of truth."
- Cyrano

Robin: I want a car, chicks dig the car.
Batman: This is why Superman works alone.
- Batman & Robin (1997)

And what shall I say of those more properly called traitors
than translators, since they betray those whom they aim to
reveal, tarnishing their glory, and seducing ignorant readers
by reading white for black?
- Joachim du Bellay, 1549

Quotes

I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

Christmas waves a magic wand over the world and
behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and
the only regret I have was that I didn't study
Latin harder in school so I could converse with
those people
- Dan Quayle

There are many ways of breaking
a heart. Stories were full of
hearts broken by love, but what
really broke a heart was taking
away its dream - whatever that
dream might be.
- Pearl S. Buck

'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked.
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said, gravely, 'and go on till you
come to the end: then stop.'
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Batman: What's yellow and writes?
Robin: A ballpoint banana.
Batman: Exactly!
- Batman(1966/I)