Robert Bresson

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
- Robert Bresson

Francis H. Bradley

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
- Francis H. Bradley

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Bill Vaughan

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but wont cross the street to vote in a national election.
- Bill Vaughan

Jawaharial Nehru

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
- Jawaharial Nehru

Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
- Douglas Adams

John Stosssel

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
- John Stosssel

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1974)

William Shakespeare

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1564-1616)

Malcolm S Forbes

The best vision is insight.
- Malcolm S Forbes

Buddha

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- Buddha

Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

Kenneth Blanchard

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
- Kenneth Blanchard

Scott Adams

"'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses."
- Scott Adams

Walt Whitman

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
- Walt Whitman

Arthur C. Clarke

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
- Arthur C. Clarke

De La Lastra's Law

"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."
- De La Lastra's Law

Homer

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
- Homer

Anonymous

She was drop dead gorgeous... like my wife... but in a different way.
- Anonymous

William Hazlitt

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
- William Hazlitt

Warren Buffett

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
- Warren Buffett

Vladimir Nabokov

The tiny madman in his padded cell.
- Vladimir Nabokov

Dr. Jess Lair

When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And it is a pleasure for all the people around me.
- Dr. Jess Lair

John Abbott

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
- John Abbott

Aldous Huxley

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley

Warren Zevon

“I'll sleep when I'm dead.”
- Warren Zevon (1947 - 2003)

Robert Strauss

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.
- Robert Strauss

Malcom X

You cannot separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
- Malcom X

Homer Simpson

Bart, a woman is like a beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!
- Homer Simpson

Dick Vermeil

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.
- Dick Vermeil

Mark Twain

...genius itself succeeds only by arduous self-training...to play on the fiddle it is not merely necessary to take a bow and fiddle with it.
- Mark Twain