Favourite quotations
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Robert Heinlein
"The Scientist explores what is...
the Engineer creates what has never been."
- Theodore von Karman
80 years before Ferris Bueller:
"What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."
- William Henry Davies, "Leisure"
"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."
- Steve Eley
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.
- Ferris Bueller.
"The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small." ~ Mother Teresa
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
- C.S. Lewis
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies”
- James Matthew Barrie
“Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
- G. K. Chesterton
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
- Dr. Seuss
“It is selfish to love people and expect them to love you back.”
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”
- Mary Anne Radmacher
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
- Oscar Wilde
“Our love cannot be measured, it just is.”
- John Paul Stevens
"A kiss is a lovely trick designd by nature to stop speech when words becomes superfluous."
- Ingrid Bergman
"You know you are in love when the only person who can make you stop crying is the one who made you cry in the first place."
- Anonymous
"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
- When Harry Met Sally
"I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears of all my life!"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten."
- Anonymous
'Heisenberg may have been here'
'Chemists do it periodically on the table'
"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
- Albert Einstein
"Be the change you wish to see in the world"
- Gandhi
To cease to change is to die.
"Arguing with an engineer is a lot like wrestling in the mud with a pig. After a few hours, you realize that he likes it. "
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- Bertrand Russell
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell
"A lie goes half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get his pants on."
- Winston Churchill
People are often unreasonable and self-centered, Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives, Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you, Be honest anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow, Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough, Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God, It was never between you and them anyway.
- Mother Theresa
"Why do we close our eyes when we sleep, when we cry, when we imagine, when we kiss, when we pray? Because, the most beautiful things in the world can not be seen with your eyes, they must be felt with your heart."
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire
Never judge a book by its movie.
You can accuse a person of just about anything and get away with it, as long as you don't call them a lousy lover or bad driver.
- Jackie Stewart
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
— Soren Kierkegaard
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.
- John Cleese, Interview for Die Another Day
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
- John Cleese
The means by which we live has outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King Jr
"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
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
— James Branch Cabell
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."
— Unknown
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
— Charles Darwin
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
— Confucius
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein
"May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead."
— An Irish blessing
Men never do evil so cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
Quotations about dancing
(Some obtained from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dance)
Admittedly, many dances can say passionately, "I want you", but nothing says, "I want you in a way fraught with peril and complexity as the center of my being struggles to come to terms with the potential disaster of a broken heart", like a tango.
- Jonathan van Matre
These sort of boobies think that people come to balls to do nothing but dance;
whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is either to look out
for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after somebody else's wife.
- Robert Smith Surtees
Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.
- Frank Thiess
Heaviness is the root of lightness.
- Lao Tzu
Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
- Source unknown
Dance is like wine - it matures with every performance.
- Alarmel Valli
Music is an invisible dance, as dancing is silent music.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden
The rumba is the vertical expression of a horizontal wish. You have to hold her, like the skin on her thigh is your reason for living. Let her go, like your heart's being ripped from your chest. Throw her back, like you're going to have your way with her right here on the dance floor. And then finish, like she's ruined you for life.
- [Shall we Dance, 2004]
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
- Fred Astaire
A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.
- Francis Bacon
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
- Samuel Beckett
I dance because I am happy, I dance because I am free
- Tosha M. Brown
Your world cannot be complete without dance.
- Anonymous
Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.
- Jacques D'Amboise
To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more powerful, more beautiful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
- Agnes de Mille
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.
- Edwin Denby
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
- Isadora Duncan
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.
- Isadora Duncan
Life isn't choreographed. That's why I fall down a lot.
- Sacha Duncan
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
- Martha Graham
Movement never lies.
- Martha Graham, quoting her father
So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? . . . How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?
- Hermann Hesse
Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not then no matter, go right on doing what you love.
- Louis Horst
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
- Vince Lombardi
Dance is advanced body language.
- Kristy Nilsson
Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor.
- Kristy Nilsson
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Joan (Angelina Jolie), Playing by Heart (1998) (Earliest attribution to Elvis Costello)
The self is a dance, constantly in motion.
- Gabrielle Roth
Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
- Gabrielle Roth
When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer.
- Gabrielle Roth
Dance is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
- George Bernard Shaw
Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and she did it backwards and in high heels.
- Faith Whittlesey
O body swayed to music, o brightening glance, how can we know the dancer from the dance?
- William Butler Yeats
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
At 14, I discovered girls. At that time, dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship. Only later did I discover that you dance joy. You dance love. You dance dreams.
- Gene Kelly
