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četvrtak, 25.11.2010.

This novel was published at the beginning of the 20th century.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

Hot winds blow from the north: cold winds blow from the south.

There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

And the last type of dwelling I want to mention is a detached house.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

In Cairo just breathing the air is life threatening- equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

He was tortured and hanged, Catesby was killed, resisting arrest in his own house.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

At first sight they have nothing in life; they don't have stable jobs or their own apartments, but they are really happy; they meet every day with a smile, they laugh and receive pleasure from life. Isn't that great?

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

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.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

Naltrexone is the first medication approved in 45 years to help alcoholics stay sober after they detoxify from alcohol.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

As for me, I have made up my mind to be an engineer.

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The best way out is always through.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
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.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

subota, 06.11.2010.

Virtually all alcoholism treatment programs also include meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which describes itself as a "worldwide fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober."

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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.'
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

I remember we were glad to see that Ulanova was dancing the main part.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

I often read the paper "Film Week" to know which films have been released and which ones are being shot.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Analysis of existing legislation of Russia confirms its prohibition on gender discrimination.

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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

The Republicans also increased their majorities in both houses of Congress, as retiring Senate Democrats from the South were replaced by Republicans.

A smiling face is half the meal.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

I like to watch films very much. I prefer thrillers, comedies and horror movies, but I do not like tragedies and melodramas very much, and I hate soap operas, although they are becoming very popular in our country.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.

četvrtak, 04.11.2010.

Usually such people keep the poultry and the cattle.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

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.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

What Is Alcohol Abuse?

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

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