I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

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---- Steve Dembo

it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

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.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)