The triumph of machine over people. ~Fred Allen, about television
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. ~John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does. ~Phil Woosnam, 1974
Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth. ~Author Unknown
The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. ~Martin H. Fischer
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle. ~Ring Lardner
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul." ~Soren Kierkegaard
Hope is a path through a flowering meadow. One doesn't require that it lead anywhere. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. ~Aesop, Fables
If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation? ~Author Unknown
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body. ~Bill Lee
Virginity can be lost by a thought. ~St. Jerome
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. ~Proverb
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh
One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial run for the jugular. ~Helen Thomson
Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground. ~Author Unknown
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. ~Publilius Syrus
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. ~Lady Bird Johnson
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~Sydney J. Harris
Problems are messages. ~Shakti Gawain
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. ~Henry Ward Beecher
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tyson Gentry
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