When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation, ' I say, 'Your salary.' (Alfred Hitchcock)
If you're traveling in a time machine, and you're eating corn on the cob, I don't think it's going to affect things one way or the other. But here's the point I'm trying to make Corn on the cob is good, isn't it. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. (Peter Drucker)
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. (George Stanley McGovern)
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. (A. C. Benson)
There is no substitute for hard work. (Thomas Alva Edison)
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. (Lao Tzu)
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. (Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. (Mother Theresa)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead)
George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door. (Blow)
Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability. (John Perry)
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. (George Bernard Shaw)
He that is down can fall no lower. (Samuel Butler)
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. (Alfonso the Wise)
If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
General Failure's Fault. Not Yours. (Anon.)
The great man is he who does not loose his child's heart. (Mencius)
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. (Cornelius Tacitus)
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. (Chinese Proverb)