“Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot even make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.” –Montaigne
Oscar, the Academy Award statuette, was named for Texan Oscar Pierce, whose niece worked in Hollywood for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. When she saw the gold statuette, she said, “Why, that looks just like my Uncle Oscar." And the rest was history.
“The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”
― Voltaire
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”
― Moses Hadas
“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
“I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.”
― Zsa Zsa Gabor
“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
From Eat, Pray, Love
“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House
“When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?”
― Maya Banks, Hidden Away
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Gloria Steinem
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"A physical book is great technology if you think about it. Once it’s produced it doesn’t use up any energy, and if you take decent care of it, it will last forever. That’s a considerable technological achievement."
E. L. Doctorow
“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ”
― Wendell Johnson
“He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.”
― Michelle Obama
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
— Ibn-e-Safi
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Asking “Why?” can lead to understanding. Asking “Why not?” can lead to breakthroughs.”
― Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
“I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.”
― David Levithan
