Showing posts with label Marlene Dietrich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marlene Dietrich. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Quotes

Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can:
all of them make me laugh.
- WH Auden

"Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

I love quotations because it is a joy to
find thoughts one might have, beautifully
expressed with much authority by someone
recognized wiser than oneself.
- Marlene Dietrich

You must not fight too often with one enemy,
or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Basic research is what I'm doing
when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher von Braun

"Democracy means government by discussion, but it
is only effective if you can stop people talking."
- Clement Atlee

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Quotaria

He is one of those people who would
be enormously improved by death.
- Saki

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging
compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the
enterprising participation of its employees.
~ Ricardo Semler

"I have enough money to last me the rest
of my life, unless I buy something."
- Jackie Mason

"Most women set out to try to change a man, and
when they have changed him they do not like him."
- Marlene Dietrich

"Income tax returns are the most imaginative
fiction being written today."
- Herman Wouk

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is
nature's inexorable imperative."
- H. G. Wells