“Forgive your enemies, just don’t forget their names” –John F. Kennedy
from pulp fiction
“What’s your name,’ Coraline asked the cat. ‘Look, I’m Coraline. Okay?”Cats don’t have names,’ it said.’No?’ said Coraline.’No,’ said the cat. ‘Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names – Japanese proverb.
French women will dress to take out the garbage (you never know….)
“Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.” ― Steve Martin
“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
“La vie c’est comme la bicyclette : quand on arrête de pédaler on tombe.”
― Albert Einstein
“Life is like a bicycle, when you stop pedaling you fall.”
Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find. ~Quoted inTime
From theonecrystal.com
“BEAUTYis in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” ―Jim Henson
There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs. – E.O. Wilson
Both Kinds of Green:
From the Green Economies Call in Review: It can be tough to sell “green” policies and programs – that’s the sustainable kind – at a time when most Americans are focusing on a different kind of green – the $$$ kind – and how to get more of it back in their wallets.
AN OPTIMIST is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind. – Albert Schweitzer
AGE becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you’re the one in the green dress. – Lois Wyse
Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower! – Jim Carrey
LIFE expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. – Doug Larsen
“Someday we’ll find it. The Rainbow Connection. The lovers, the dreamers, and me.”―Jim Henson
I know it’s not really in line with the rest but I used to love this song because Kermit the frog sang it and after all, Kermit is GREEN.
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? – Scott Adams.
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It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. – Bill Gates.
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. – Alan Alda
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. – Don Herold.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. – Gracie Allen.
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That’s like a free compliment and you don’t even gotta be smart to notice it. – Mitch Hedberg.
By Modernism, I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change; in novelty for its own sake; in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank
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Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. – Salvador Dali
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire
Post-Modernism was a reaction against modernism. It came quite early to music and literature and a little later to architecture. And I think it’s still coming to computer science. – Larry Wall
“The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.” – Jackson Pollock
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“The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.”- G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered
“In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.” ― William E. Hordern
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. – Oscar Wilde.
Immature love says: “I love you because I need you. Mature love says I need you because I love you” – Erich Fromm
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. – Eizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
Love means never having to say you’re Surrey….or something like that.
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ― Charles M. Schulz
“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” ― Linda Grayson
“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M’s and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.” ― Dave Barry
“Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.” ― Dave Barry
“Don’t wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. Chocolate isn’t like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant. And it always feels good.” ― Lora Brody
“If there’s no chocolate in Heaven, I’m not going.” Jane Seabrook, Furry Logic Laugh at Life
It’s not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let’s face it, far more reliable than a man.” – Miranda Ingram
This guy found a bottle on the ocean, and he opened it and out popped a genie, and he gave him three wishes. The guy wished for a million dollars, and poof! there was a million dollars. Then he wished for a convertible, and poof! there was a convertible. And then, he wished he could be irresistible to all women… poof! he turned into a box of chocolates.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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