"Hard a-starboard!"
~HMS Titanic First Officer William Murdoch
(The order was misinterpreted by the Quartermaster Robert Hitchins)
@coluber2001,
"Age…Is a matter of feeling, not of years." George W. Curtis
@newmoonnewmoon,
"Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it."
Joseph Heller
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
Oliver Stone
@coluber2001,
"I believe we are all capable of 'achieving greatness,' but the problem is that most of us don’t want to do the work." Herby Fabius, Excuses: Top 50 Excuses and False Statements Stopping You from Launching Your Business Idea
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Albert Einstein
@coluber2001,
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
@newmoonnewmoon,
The best things in life, eh?
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Jonathan Swift
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein
Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.
Joseph Heller, Catch -22
@coluber2001,
"We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence."
Aldous Huxley, "Island"
Two-fer
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.
both by J M Synge
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
Aldous Huxley, "Ends and Means"
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
Albert Einstein
It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
Wislawa Szymborska
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment -- and nothing more corrupting.
A. J. P. Taylor
"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."
Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
Albert Einstein
