Saturday, October 18, 2008
Famous Quotations for Today
Karl Kraus
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
Mark Twain, Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
Colin
Think hard about it I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.
Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Johann von Goethe
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Dr. Linus Pauling
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Amelia Earhart
As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk And after you're real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lie down and go to sleep.
Ellen Glasgow, The Woman Within, 1954
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
Bruce Jenner
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't.
More Quotes
Sony recalls video game on Koran following hardline Muslim objections - Newstrack India
Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:36:00 GMT
London, Oct.18 (ANI): Japanese electronic giant Sony has recalled a new PS3 computer game on the Koran because Muslims have taken offence to it.According to The Sun, the ultra-cute ...
Quotations for Russian Minfin bonds - Interfax Information Agency
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:29:00 GMT
© 1991 - 2008 Interfax Information Service. All rights reserved. News and other data on this site are provided for information purposes only, and are not intended for ...
Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange - Monsters and Critics
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:41:00 GMT
London - Final prices in dollars per ton - cash and forward. Also given are the previous trading day's quotations. #> cash forward Copper 4,833.00 ( 4,763.00) 4,775.00 ( 4,695.00 ...
A Rendezvous With Destiny, Cast in Bronze - Wall Street Journal
Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:51:00 GMT
WASHINGTON -- The five life-sized bronze men line up, in hats and overcoats, their shoulders slumped. Outside a closed door, they wait for bread or, perhaps, a job. Eva Durak, 31 ...
¶ 9:12 AM
Give me Famous Quotations now!
Karl Kraus
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
Mark Twain, Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
Colin
Think hard about it I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.
Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Johann von Goethe
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Dr. Linus Pauling
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Amelia Earhart
As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk And after you're real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lie down and go to sleep.
Ellen Glasgow, The Woman Within, 1954
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
Bruce Jenner
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't.
More Quotes
Sony recalls video game on Koran following hardline Muslim objections - Newstrack India
Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:36:00 GMT
London, Oct.18 (ANI): Japanese electronic giant Sony has recalled a new PS3 computer game on the Koran because Muslims have taken offence to it.According to The Sun, the ultra-cute ...
Quotations for Russian Minfin bonds - Interfax Information Agency
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:29:00 GMT
© 1991 - 2008 Interfax Information Service. All rights reserved. News and other data on this site are provided for information purposes only, and are not intended for ...
Metal prices from London Commodities Exchange - Monsters and Critics
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:41:00 GMT
London - Final prices in dollars per ton - cash and forward. Also given are the previous trading day's quotations. #> cash forward Copper 4,833.00 ( 4,763.00) 4,775.00 ( 4,695.00 ...
A Rendezvous With Destiny, Cast in Bronze - Wall Street Journal
Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:51:00 GMT
WASHINGTON -- The five life-sized bronze men line up, in hats and overcoats, their shoulders slumped. Outside a closed door, they wait for bread or, perhaps, a job. Eva Durak, 31 ...
¶ 9:12 AM
