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  • You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, "Steven, time to go to sleep." I said, "But I don't know how." She said, "It's real easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left." So I went down to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother was there, and she said "I thought I told you to go to sleep.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • "Age before beauty? I think that was just created so some old man could feel beautiful again. I bet George Bush made that quote."
        xxBrokenByLovexx   Best?
  • That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts.
        Karin Meienburg   Best?
  • If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and
        Joseph Goebbels   Best?
  • In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail.
        Vincent T. Lombardi   Best?
  • No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
        Anne Rice   Best?
  • You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
        Anouk Aimee   Best?
  • Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • You know, I think that if parents would spend less time worrying about what their kids watch on TV and more time worrying about what's going on in their kids' lives, this world would be a much better place.
        Trey Parker and Matt Stone   Best?
  • It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
        e. e. cummings   Best?
  • I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.
        Julia Roberts   Best?
  • The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
        Jack Kerouac   Best?
  • Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
        Tallulah Bankhead   Best?
  • A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
        Homer   Best?
  • It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive.
        Tupac Shakur   Best?
  • You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • This is no time to make new enemies.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • ...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
        Gabriel Garcia Marquez   Best?
  • That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile.
        Randy Newman   Best?
  • Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
  • In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
        Charles Mingus   Best?
  • Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
        Anthony J. D'Angelo   Best?
  • Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
        Sidney J. Harris   Best?
  • The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
        Henry L. Stimson   Best?
  • You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
        Plato   Best?
  • The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
        Alvin Toffler   Best?
  • Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
        Ben Hecht   Best?

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