Quotes to Live By

Boy George

• "Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance."
   
• "Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time."
   
• "I do not dress and do my makeup this way in order to get attention. If I wanted to get attention, I would run down the street in a wedding dress with a flower pot on my head."

John Atkinson

• "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will."

Douglas Addams

• "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
   
• "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
   
• "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
   
• "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
   
• "Watch?? I'm gonna' pray, man! Know any good religions?"
   
• "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
   
• "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
  1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
  2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
  3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
   
• "It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end."
   
• "42"

J. K. Rowling

• "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
   
• "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
   
• "Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."

J. R. R. Tolkien

• "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
   
• "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world"
   
• "Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to."
   
• "It's a dangerous business going out your front door."
   
• "All that is gold does not glitter,
  Not all those who wander are lost;
  The old that is strong does not wither,
  Deep roots are not reached by frost.
  
  From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
  A light from the shadows shall spring;
  Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
  The crownless again shall be king."
   
• "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as much as you deserve."
   
• "Never laugh at a live dragon."

Lao-tzu

• "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
   
• "Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong."

John F. Kennedy

• "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
   
• "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
   
• "The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. "

Oscar Wilde

• "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
   
• "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Isaac Asimov

• "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
   
• "One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
  Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws."
   
• "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
   
• "Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love."
   
• "People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds up a mirror for you? "

Lucille Ball

• "Love yourself and everything else falls into line. You really do have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."
   
• "Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
   
• "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

Brittany "Bubbles" Putnam

• "We all know about electrons, protons, neutrons...Right..? But are you familiar with the most destructive element of all..? Kittons!"
   
• "Whatever it is you are ever planning on doing to each other in the cafeteria, don't... 'Cause that is so not serve-safe..!"

Bono

• "There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious."
   

Nathaniel Borenstein

• "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."

Lenny Bruce

• "Communism is like one big phone company."
   
• "When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business."
   
• "Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God."
   
• "In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls."
   
• "Take away the right to say 'fuck' and you take away the right to say 'fuck the government.'"
   
• "It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness."
   
• "There are no dirty words, only dirty minds."

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