Favorite Quotations
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Famous Quotes Update
Sinclair Lewis
There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.
Christopher Hampton
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
Alex Carey
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
Jean de La Bruyere
A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
Albert Einstein
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
Jack Benny
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Claude Pepper
The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
Carolyn Kenmore
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
Fawn M. Brodie
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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S.Korea bond traders see rate cut next week-survey - FXStreet.com
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:27:00 GMT
SEOUL, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Bond dealers in South Korea expect the country's central bank to cut key interest rates again at its next policy meeting on Thursday given the looming risk ...
Five HTML oddities that you may not know - Zd Net Asia.com
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:31:00 GMT
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Malaysian Stocks - Factors to watch - Forbes
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:42:00 GMT
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Sinclair Lewis
There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.
Christopher Hampton
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
Alex Carey
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
Jean de La Bruyere
A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
Albert Einstein
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
Jack Benny
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
Claude Pepper
The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
Carolyn Kenmore
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
Fawn M. Brodie
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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S.Korea bond traders see rate cut next week-survey - FXStreet.com
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:27:00 GMT
SEOUL, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Bond dealers in South Korea expect the country's central bank to cut key interest rates again at its next policy meeting on Thursday given the looming risk ...
Five HTML oddities that you may not know - Zd Net Asia.com
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:31:00 GMT
Browsers are more compliant than Web developers think--find out why, as well as what other nuggets of insights from an industry observer's experience with HTML 5. Over the last ...
Malaysian Stocks - Factors to watch - Forbes
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:42:00 GMT
Copyright Thomson Reuters 2008. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly ...
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Quotations for Today
Trey and Matt Stone Parker
I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.
Neil Kinnock
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
Unknown
He was a true friend, he stabbed me in the front.
Germaine Greer
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Stephen Stills
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
Xenophon
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Aeschylus
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Teena Booth
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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Toyota NASCAR Notes & Quotes - 2008 Season Review - PaddockTalk
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:43:00 GMT
FOR TOYOTA: Toyota Camry drivers earned 10 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) wins in 2008. Kyle Busch led the Camry contingent with eight victories in his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing ...
Language is embiggened by words that don't exist - Stuff
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:53:00 GMT
While looking for the nine- letter word to solve The Dominion Post's Target puzzle, I came up with "goldthief". So, as anybody else would, I asked myself whether that was a word ...
Were There Muslims in Mumbai? - AINA
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:46:00 GMT
Come on along and listen to the Lullaby of Mumbai, the hip hooray and politically correct coverage, and never say the "I" word. That doesn't rhyme, does it? In its coverage of a ...
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Trey and Matt Stone Parker
I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.
Neil Kinnock
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
Unknown
He was a true friend, he stabbed me in the front.
Germaine Greer
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Stephen Stills
There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
Jerry Coleman
Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.
Xenophon
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Aeschylus
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Teena Booth
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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Toyota NASCAR Notes & Quotes - 2008 Season Review - PaddockTalk
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:43:00 GMT
FOR TOYOTA: Toyota Camry drivers earned 10 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) wins in 2008. Kyle Busch led the Camry contingent with eight victories in his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing ...
Language is embiggened by words that don't exist - Stuff
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:53:00 GMT
While looking for the nine- letter word to solve The Dominion Post's Target puzzle, I came up with "goldthief". So, as anybody else would, I asked myself whether that was a word ...
Were There Muslims in Mumbai? - AINA
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:46:00 GMT
Come on along and listen to the Lullaby of Mumbai, the hip hooray and politically correct coverage, and never say the "I" word. That doesn't rhyme, does it? In its coverage of a ...
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Great Quotes
Mark Twain
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard
All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Clare Booth Luce
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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Air NZ crash - Latest News - New Zealand Herald
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:10:00 GMT
Local newspaper L'Independant said about ten boats had gone to help and debris from the plane's wreckage could be seen. One witness who watched the accident happen from the coast ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:50:00 GMT
NEW YORK/LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Central banks in Europe slashed their benchmark interest rates by record amounts on Thursday to fight the global economic crisis, while U.S ...
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Mark Twain
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard
All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Clare Booth Luce
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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Air NZ crash - Latest News - New Zealand Herald
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:10:00 GMT
Local newspaper L'Independant said about ten boats had gone to help and debris from the plane's wreckage could be seen. One witness who watched the accident happen from the coast ...
Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:50:00 GMT
NEW YORK/LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Central banks in Europe slashed their benchmark interest rates by record amounts on Thursday to fight the global economic crisis, while U.S ...
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Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Theodore Roosevelt
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
Harry S Truman
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Douglas Noel Adams
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
Unknown
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight
...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
George Barrell Cheever
Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
Kelly Marshall
It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow.
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:22:00 GMT
Chris Martin has denied that Coldplay will split up in two years' time. Earlier quotes attributed to the singer suggested that the rock band would soon part ways. "I'm 31 now and I ...
Compilation of the best McEwen-Quotations - Amiga World
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:49:00 GMT
"OS 5 is ahead of schedule, and we will be making public announcements concerning the product in the 4th quarter of this year." (This was in 2007) "OS 5] is going to be much ...
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Gore Vidal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Theodore Roosevelt
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
Harry S Truman
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Douglas Noel Adams
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
Unknown
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight
...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
George Barrell Cheever
Faith in tomorrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
Kelly Marshall
It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow.
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Olympic Posters
Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:14:04 +0000
7915: Olympic Games 1936 Berlin. Large Poster Olympic l
US $760.14
click for more information
...]
Coldplay: 'We'll never split up' - Digital Spy
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:22:00 GMT
Chris Martin has denied that Coldplay will split up in two years' time. Earlier quotes attributed to the singer suggested that the rock band would soon part ways. "I'm 31 now and I ...
Compilation of the best McEwen-Quotations - Amiga World
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:49:00 GMT
"OS 5 is ahead of schedule, and we will be making public announcements concerning the product in the 4th quarter of this year." (This was in 2007) "OS 5] is going to be much ...
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