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subota, 27.11.2010.

In America the word ?the movies? is often used.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Euclid then proves each one of his theorems using the definitions and postulates, mathematically proving even the most obvious.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

I stand in awe of my body.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

There are 1,400 different kinds of fish, and more than 300 kinds of coral.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Now there are a lot of books in the shops, there are many books in our flats.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Is there life before death?

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Well done is better than well said.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

Researchers found that most managers and supervisors in one large manufacturing plant had little knowledge of the company's alcohol policy.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

The cakes were round like the full moon and lit with tapers.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

The ongoing changes in social, political and economic spheres of the country entails not only the raise of women?s role in society, in addition they are accompanied by breaking of stereotypes to treat human beings by sex that had been shaping through dec

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

utorak, 16.11.2010.

Agatha Christie's favourite way of murdering was by poisoning.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

In one study of 832 workers at a large manufacturing plant, workers on evening shifts, during which supervision was reduced, were more likely than those on other shifts to report drinking at work.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

But in general I'm sure that it's quite nice to live in a semi-detached house.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

There are promising types of counseling that teach recovering alcoholics to identify situations and feelings that trigger the urge to drink and to find new ways to cope that do not include alcohol use.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The best way out is always through.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Art is science made clear.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Generally this limit is 20kg for economic class passenger and 30kg for first class passenger.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
History is more or less bunk.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I stand in awe of my body.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

subota, 06.11.2010.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Some people make headlines while others make history.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Another tradition is to send cristmas cards.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
My home is not a place, it is people.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Printing played an important role in the development of literature and culture.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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