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10/27/2004 06:42:57 PM · #1 |
I need a new quote for my signature.
Any suggestions?
Thanks ahead of time!
Lee Lee
Message edited by author 2004-10-27 19:02:22.
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10/27/2004 07:28:38 PM · #2 |
Cats land on their feet. Toast lands jellyside down.
A cat glued to some jelly toast will hover in quantum indecision |
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10/27/2004 07:29:26 PM · #3 |
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
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10/27/2004 07:32:06 PM · #4 |
"I love deadlines. I specially love the swooshing sounds they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams |
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10/27/2004 08:02:34 PM · #5 |
Achieved!
Thanks...i'm still open to more suggestions though :)!
Lee
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10/27/2004 08:40:32 PM · #6 |
Here are a few I culled from my quote book. These are among my favorites that are short enough for a signature.
He who does not understand your silence probably will not understand your words.
-Elbert Hubbard
Words can be beautiful. So can dreams. So can hopes.
-F. Clifton White
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
-Wynetka Ann Reynolds
Art is the signature of civilization.
-Beverly Sills
To be human is to dream . . . We all pay rent on castles in the air.
-Jo Coudert
Be a dreamer. If you donât know how to dream, youâre dead.
-Jim Valvano (Basketball coach, North Carolina State University), from Pep Talk
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
-Ralph Hodgson
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-Meatloaf, from Everything Louder Than Everything Else
You must work--we must all work--to make the world worthy of its children.
-Pablo Casals
The future just ain't what it used to be.
-Yogi Berra
âReally, now you ask me,â said Alice, very much confused, âI don't think--â
âThen you shouldn't talk,â said the Hatter.
-From Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
The hardest part of having ethics is holding to them when they are used against you.
-Jim Griffith
I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe people are really good at heart.
-Anne Frank, from Diary of a Young Girl
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
-Sydney Smith
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!
-Isaac Asimov, From Foundation
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
-Van Gogh
Imagination is more important than information
-Albert Einstein
Instruction ends in the schoolroom â but education ends only with life.
-Publilus Syrus
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
-Billy Joel, quoted by Bill DeMain in The Performing Songwriter
There is an Indian belief that everyone is a house of four rooms: a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual room. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete.
-Rumer Godden
Uncertainty is the normal state. Youâre nobody special.
-Tom Stoppard in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds â if it was a bet you wouldnât take it.
-Tom Stoppard in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
All sunshine makes a desert.
-Arabic Proverb
Life is. I am. Anything might happen.
-Robert Fulghum, from Maybe (Maybe Not)
Good things come to those who wait. Better things come to those who donât.
-Sekou Sundiata, Philosophy of the Cool, from The Blue Oneness of Dreams
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
-William Arthur Ward
There is little room for wisdom when one is full of judgment.
-Malcolm Hein
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
-Eric Hoffer
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
-Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
âOne of the reasons the world's in such sad shape is that no one believes in magic or wonder anymore.â
-Charles de Lint, Memory and Dream
âThere's no one way to approach art; there's no right way. So long as you apply yourself with honesty and create from the heart, the end result is truthful. It might not be good, per se, but it still has worth. And I think that goes for any creative endeavor.â
-Charles de Lint, Memory and Dream
âSome nights,â he said, âI feel as though there are ghosts out there--not just of people who have died, but of the people we used to be. The people we might have been.â
-Charles de Lint, Memory and Dream
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
-Isaac Asimov, From Foundation
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
-Isaac Asimov in Foundation
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-Albert Einstein
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
-Doris Lessing
It has often been said: âIf you give them enough rope, theyâll hang themselves.â But why should they? Maybe theyâll create an unbelievably elegant arrangement of rope; an impossibly monumental construction of coiled vision which could only be classified as rope sculpture, stretching a timeless strand of understanding between us and posterity.
-Crosley Bendix, from the liner notes to Negativland, Escape From Noise
A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-Oliver Wendall Holmes
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
-Coco Chanel
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
-William Arthur Ward
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allen Poe (from Eleonora)
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem
is how far is it from midtown and how late is it open.
-attributed to Woody Allen
Everything is impossible, until it's not.
-from Star Trek
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
-Aldous Huxley, Do What You Will
All of the animals, excepting man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
-Samuel Butler
I do not believe that the meaning of life is a puzzle to be solved.
-Robert Fulghum, from Maybe (Maybe Not)
Accept that some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.
-Robert C. Anderson, The Rotarian
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
-George Eliot
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
-From Tom Stoppard, The Plays For Radio 1964-91
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
-Socrates
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
-Tom Peters, The Pursuit Of Wow!
Look at it this way: A near death experience never killed anyone.
-Terry Auspitz
Itâs a weird world. Be yourself at all times.
-Jann Arden, from the liner notes to Living Under June
-Terry
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10/27/2004 08:42:50 PM · #7 |
"When I grow up, I wanna be a firetruck"
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10/27/2004 11:16:47 PM · #8 |
| "The sun never looks through the photographic instrument that it does not print a lie." Mark Twain |
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10/28/2004 12:45:39 AM · #9 |
"If it doesn't kill you, it will make you stronger."
"What are we, barbarians?" |
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10/28/2004 01:00:44 AM · #10 |
"Never play leapfrog, with a unicorn"
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