Quotes
From Daniel Crabtree
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Fred Allen
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
Robert Anthony
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy."
Neil Armstrong
"I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."
Martin Buber
"The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda."
Kyle Chandler
"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."
Arthur C. Clarke
"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative."
Professor Irwin Corey
"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."
Bill Cosby
"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."
Daniel Wayne Crabtree
"It is when we set out to accomplish nothing, that we accomplish the most." - 2004
"If I am permitted to have only a certain fraction of my dreams come true, then I should surely increase the number of dreams I have." - 2004
"let us not be bounded by the constraints placed upon us by society, let us be bounded by the limits of our imagination" - January 2007
Gordon R. Dickson
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."
Benjamin Disraeli
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
Sir Arthur Eddington
"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
Albert Einstein
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity."
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Anatole France
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
Robert Frost
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
Larry Hardiman
"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'"
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Doug Larson
"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
Marshall McLuhan
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say."
Fritz Perls
"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."
Dan Quayle
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
Tom Robbins
"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it."
Rita Rudner
"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head."
Bertrand Russell
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
George Bernard Shaw
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough"
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
Theodore Sturgeon
"Ninety percent of everything is crap."
Nikola Tesla
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
Mark Twain
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language."
Paul Valery
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
Oscar Wilde
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
Robert Wilensky
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."
