@edgarblythe,
“Never burn bridges. Today’s junior jerk, tomorrow’s senior partner.”
- Sigourney Weaver
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
~ Woody Allen
“If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.”
- Katherine Hepburn
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Ulysses
Stephen Dedalus
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
~ Woody Allen
(Not exactly a profound quote, but I laughed when I came across it.)
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
- George Bernard Shaw
From Faust:
In the end, you are exactly--what you are.
Put on a wig with a million curls,
put the highest heeled boots on your feet,
yet you remain in the end just what you are.
- Mephistopheles
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
~ Ronald Reagan
@msolga,
You gain four stars for that one, olga.
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
~ Adolf Hitler
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
~ W. C. Fields
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
@edgarblythe,
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”
~ Charlie Brown
“The only good thing about getting old is you also get over yourself.” –Janey Street
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
~ Albert Einstein
"The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies — socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor — and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food."
~ John Pilger, journalist.
@msolga,
I give this quote four stars.
@edgarblythe,
So do I edgar.
John Pilger is a hero of mine, a very inspiring, uncompromising journalist.
“The Holocaust has shown us that the creation of hell on earth is just a matter of engineering. The creation of an earthly paradise is an engineering problem also.” –Stafford Beer, from Engineering Pradise by David Gardiner
