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The Outer Charms |
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The Inner Workings
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| If you cannot be GOOD... Be CAREFUL. |
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An Empty Box? |
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
"The people who failed english become poets"
hehee. I say the darndest things. e. e. cummings is the most irritating man. Why does my Poem Suck so badly? Richard Hugo is stupid. I hate baseball.
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Curiosity may have killed the cat,
but at least the cat died knowing.
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Monday, February 17, 2003
All religions issue Bibles against Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.--Mark Twain (1835--1910)
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.--Wilfred Sheed (1920--), U.S. writer
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands, but you can't tear the toilet paper.--Billy Wilder, (1906--2002), Hollywood director
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheeses?--Charles De Gaulle, 1890-1970), president of France
The trouble with the French is that they sit around twenty-four hours a day talking French.--Monty Wooley, (1888--1963), actor
A cucumber should be well sliced and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.--Samuel Johnson (1709--1784), Oct. 5, 1773
Coffee isn't my cup of tea.--attributed to Samuel Goldwyn (1884-1974), Hollywood movie producer
My favorite animal is steak.--Fran Lebowitz (1950--), U.S. writer
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.--Orson Welles, (1915 - 1985), U.S. actor
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner.--Lynda Montgomery
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.--Plato (428-347 B.C.), The Republic, ca. 370 B.C.
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.--Fran Lebowitz (1950--), U.S. writer
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.--U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite
The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.--Franklin Jones, (1853-1935)
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.--W. Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965), British novelist
An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward.--Austin O'Malley, (1858 - 1932) , physician/humorist
English physicians kill you, the French let you die.--Lord Melbourne, William Lamb (1779--1848)
Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer.--Dr. Stanley Rudin, New York Times (Aug. 22, 1963)
Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.--Bill Bryson, (1951--), U.S. travel writer
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.--Albert Einstein, address at the Sorbonne
In America only the successful writer is important; in France all writers are important; in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.--Geoffrey Cottrell, New York Journal-American, Sept. 22, 1961.
In England I would rather be a man, a horse, a dog or a woman, in that order. In American I would think the order would be reversed.--Bruce Gould
The English are proud; the French are vain.--Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.--Francis Bacon, Essays, "Of Seeing Wise."
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.--Marshall McLuhan, (1911--1980), U.S. communications theorist
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?--Lee Iacocca, (1924--), U.S. businessman
What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?--Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)
"English cooking? You just put things into boiling water and then take them out again after a long while!" --an anonymous French chef
I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire: God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark.--Duncan Spaeth, Princeton professor
London is full of fogs--and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know, but the whole thing rather gets on my nerves.--Oscar Wilde (1856--1900)
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.--Bette Midler, The Times, 1978