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"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!"

Tennessee Williams

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"A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

Don Marquis

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"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."

Linus Torvalds

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"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."

Maya Lin

(I hope I share the same thought with her sometime in the future...:doubt:)

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"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

Napoleon Hill

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"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Jim Rohn

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"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

Aristotle

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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends?"

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."

Mark Twain

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"No man is ever old enough to know better."

Holbrook Jackson

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"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process."

Jim Rohn

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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses."

Lowell Thomas

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"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin."

Desmond Tutu

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"I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?"

Michael Jackson

:yikes: :yikes: :yikes: :yikes:

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“I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not the most popular idea ever expressed. Either that or you're all real high and agreeing with me in the only way you can right now, blinking”

Bill Hicks

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"I dream that someday the step between my mind and my finger will no longer be needed. And that simply by blinking my eyes, I shall make pictures. Then, I think, I shall really have become a photographer."

Alfred Eisenstaedt

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"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"

Pablo Picasso

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"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."

Horace

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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get on the bark.

Woody Allen

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"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."

Petrarch

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"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."

Maya Angelou

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"When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist."

Shimon Peres

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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

Voltaire

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"What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another."

Virgil

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"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."

Anatole France

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"Calamity forever alternates with Prosperity!"

Bodhidharma

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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."

Calvin Coolidge

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"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this."

Terry Pratchett

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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker

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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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"My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop."

Paul Gleason

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"The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings."

Buddha

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"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body."

Barbara de Angelis

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"Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms."

Lord Byron

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"The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?"

James C. Maxwell

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"Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves."

Jean Guitton

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"Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls."

Victor Hugo

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"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."

Saint Teresa

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"True piety, high motives, but deep ignorance!"

John Gresham Machen