"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It is the same damn thing over and over." --Edna St. Vincent Millay
"There is no worse robber than a bad book." --Unknown
"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices." --Laurence Peter
"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little." --Porterfield
"Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come." --W.I.E. Gates
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." --Joseph Stalin
"How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?" --from the movie E.T. the Extraterrestrial
"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." --Dwight David Eisenhower
"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is." --J.M. Barrie
"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb." --Nadine Gordimer
"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?" --Lily Tomlin
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." --Frank Lloyd Wright
"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns." --G.H. Hardy
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts." --Percy Shelley
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." --Bertha Flowers
"Give it your best shot, have a good time and if it doesn't work at least you tried!" --Melanie C., Spice Girls
"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall." --Leonardo DiCaprio
"Tears are the silent language of grief." --Unknown
"As for me, prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work." --Katherine Hepburn
"It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts." --Patrick Henry
"A friend is a gift you give yourself." --Robert Stevenson
"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it." --Unknown
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." --Vidal Sassoon
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." --Bertrand Russell
"All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market." --Maya Angelou's brother, Bailey
"There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true." --Niels Bohr
"In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things." --Luciano Pavarotti
"Books had instant replay long before televised sports." --Bert Williams
"Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart." --John Knowles; A Separate Peace
