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Famous People Quotes #2

Posted on April 20, 2011 by

“The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.” – John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” – E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.” – Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

“Assassins!” – Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

“I’ll moider da bum.” – Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.” – Rene Descartes (1596-1650), “Discours de la Methode”

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.” – Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.” – George Burns (1896-1996)

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.” – Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.” – Bjarne Stroustrup

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.” – Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

Dream Quotes

Posted on January 10, 2011January 10, 2011 by

– “Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.” – X-Files

– “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” – Elias Canetti

– “Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day.” – Unknown

– “A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” – The Talmud

– “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman

– “A dream has power to poison sleep.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

– “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement

– “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce

– “I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.” – Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”

– “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” – Henri Amiel

– “There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.” – Stoddard King, Jr.

– “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.” – E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

– “Dreams digest the meals that are our days.” – Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment

– “Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.” – The Angels’ Little Instruction Book, Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

– “One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.” – Evelyn Waugh

– “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” – Gail Godwin

– “Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.” – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence

– “Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.” – Vivian Mercer

– “Dreams are free, so free your dreams.” – Astrid Alauda

– “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

– “For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.” – Samuel Lover, Rory O’ More