Quotable Quotes

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 9:38 pm

A new scientific truth does not triumph by
convincing its opponents and making them see the
light, but rather because its opponents eventually
die, and a new generation grows up that is
familiar with it.

Max Planck

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:34 pm

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

Arabic proverb

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 12:22 pm

Lord,grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Michelangelo

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:52 pm

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language.
That may be the measure of our lives.

Toni Morrison

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:23 am

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Andy Grove

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:45 am

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity,no humor,no overstatement can quite extinquish,the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J.Robert Oppenheimer,American physicist

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:25 am

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:42 pm

Modo et modo non habebant modum----By and by never comes

St.Augustine (A.D. 354-A.D. 430)

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:53 pm

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:09 am

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:28 pm

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

M. G. Siriam

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:42 am

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.

Smith & Jones

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:00 pm

An optimist sees opportunity in every calamity.A pessimist sees calamity in every opportunity.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:45 am

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

-Jason Kidd upon being drafted to the Dallas Mavericks

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:12 pm

We may well go to the moon,but that's not very far.The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

Charles de Gaulle,French statesman

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:20 pm

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Ernest Hemingway-----1899-1961

oak hill71 · Post by **oak hill71** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:07 pm

One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. - Stalin

oak hill71 · Post by **oak hill71** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:07 pm

The goal in life is to not last forever, but to create something that does. - Can't Remember

oak hill71 · Post by **oak hill71** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:08 pm

It is better to burn out than to fade away. - Kurt Cobain

oak hill71 · Post by **oak hill71** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:09 pm

I created the internet. - Al Gore