Showing posts with label Niels Bohr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Niels Bohr. Show all posts

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Quotaria

"It is not only fine feathers
that make fine birds."
- Aesop

"Music can change the world
because it can change people."
- Bono


"Delusions of grandeur make me
feel a lot better about myself."
- Jane Wagner

"Illegitimacy is something we should
talk about in terms of not having it."
- Dan Quayle

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false
statement. But the opposite of a profound truth
may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr


"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults
by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
- Laurence J. Peter

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotaria - Favorites

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals.
I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."
- A. Whitney Brown

"If at first you don't succeed, find
out if the loser gets anything."
- Bill Lyon

"There is no abstract art. You must always
start with something. Afterward you can
remove all traces of reality."
- Pablo Picasso

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for
a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a
jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
- Aristotle


"In a mad world only the mad are sane."
- Akira Kurosawa


"An expert is a person who has made
all the mistakes that can be made
in a very narrow field."
- Niels Bohr

Friday, August 07, 2009

Quotes - Favorites

"Millions saw the apple fall, but
Newton was the one who asked why."
- Bernard Baruch


"The only interesting answers are
those which destroy the questions."
- Susan Sontag

"Countless as the sands of
the sea are human passions."
- Nikolai Gogol

"We all agree that your theory is
crazy, but is it crazy enough?"
- Niels Bohr

"You cannot step into
the same river twice."
- Heraclitus

"It is not enough to have a good mind;
the main thing is to use it well."
- Rene Descartes

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotaria

Are you going to come quietly,
or do I have to use earplugs?
- Spike Milligan


To know all is not to forgive all.
It is to despise everything.
- Quentin Crisp

Where is human nature so
weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher


"Every sentence I utter must be understood
not as an affirmation, but as a question."
- Niels Bohr


The trouble with weather forecasting is that
it's right too often for us to ignore it and
wrong too often for us to rely on it.
- Patrick Young

Never tell a story because it is true:
tell it because it is a good story.
- John Pentland Mahaffy

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Quotes

"Lawyers, I suppose,
were children once."
- Charles Lamb

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country
are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the
other lousy two percent that get all the publicity.
But then--we elected them."
- Lily Tomlin

"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that
you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail."
- Fran Lebowitz

"Never go to bed mad.
Stay up and fight."
- Phyllis Diller

"The purpose of life
is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne

"Prediction is very difficult, especially
if it's about the future."
- Niels Bohr