Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
-Muhammad Ali
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
-Dave Tyson Gentry
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
-E. B. White
Common sense is not so common.
-Voltaire
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
-H. A. Overstreet
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
-Isaac Asimov
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?
-Robert A. Heinlein
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
-Robert A. Heinlein
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
-Robert A. Heinlein
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
-Robert A. Heinlein
"Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
-Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
-Robert A. Heinlein
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid).
-Robert A. Heinlein
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
-Robert A. Heinlein
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
-Robert A. Heinlein
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
-Robert A. Heinlein
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Buddha
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
-Robert Frost
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
-Socrates
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
-E. B. White
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.
-Wernher von Braun
Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love and realize the bath water is cold.
-Lorraine Lee Cudmore
That's the nature of research - you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-Doc Edgerton
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
-Bruce Feirstein
When we decode a cookbook, every one of us is a practicing chemist. Cooking is really the oldest, most basic application of physical and chemical forces to natural materials.
-Arthur E. Grosser
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
-Robert Frost
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
-Arnold J. Toynbee
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
-Dante Alighieri
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
-Lord Acton
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
-Isaac Asimov
I didn't think; I experimented.
-Anthony Burgess
Every dogma has its day.
-Anthony Burgess
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
-Anthony Burgess
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
-Anthony Burgess
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
-Anthony Burgess
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
-Anthony Burgess
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
-Jimmy Buffett
Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
-Jimmy Buffett
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things.
-Ray Bradbury
First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
-Ray Bradbury
My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
-Ray Bradbury
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
-Ray Bradbury
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
-Ray Bradbury
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
-Ray Bradbury
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
-Ray Bradbury
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
-Ray Bradbury
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
-Karl Marx
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
