Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
~Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
~JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
~Orson Welles
Any PC built after 1985 has the storage capacity to house an evil spirit.
We speak as we sing, he said, for we sing Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika. (God Save Africa)
~Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, “In this world, Elwood, you must be” — she always called me Elwood — “In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.” Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. And you may quote me.
~Harvey
“Would you tell me, please, which way to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal,” said the cat, “on where you want to get to.”
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Further up and further in.”
~CS Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
“Courage, dear heart.”
~Aslan
“I’m just here to regulate the funkiness.”
~Winston from “The Mexican”
“Now is that what it’s like or is that what it is? Because I don’t want to know what it’s like. I want to know what it is.”
~Dr. Boyd, Governor’s School math god
“I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.”
~Steve McQueen
“I’m bad with, like, words.”
~Lauren O’Rourk
“If you want to be happy
A day, get married
A week, kill a hog
All your life, take care of a garden.”
~Chinese Proverb
“Never for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”
~Dag Hammerskjold
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
~Ghandi
“I really like what you are doing. I didn’t understand it before, but getting off your butt and actually doing something for yourself is important for all of us. And although I can’t say I won’t miss you like hell, and won’t worry about you often, I can say that what you’re doing is great and I love you for it. It’s important that we leave each other and the comfort of it, and circle away, even though its hard sometimes, so we can come back and swap information about what we learnt even if what we do changes us and we risk not recognizing each other when we return.”
~Robyn Davidson, “Tracks”
“On the mountain of truth, you never climb in vain. You can reach a higher step today or you can excercise your strength to climb higher tomorrow.”
~Neitzache
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. This, however, is not generally a part of the domestic apparatus on the premises. I think myself that the thing might be managed with several pails of Aspinall and a broom. Only if one worked in a really sweeping and masterly way, and laid on the color in great washes, it might drip down again on one’s face in floods of rich and mingled color like some strange fairy rain; and that would have its disadvantages. I am afraid it would be necessary to stick to black and white in this form of artistic composition. To that purpose, indeed, the white ceiling would be of the greatest possible use; in fact, it is the only use I think of a white ceiling being put to. “
~G. K. Chesterton
“Adventure is a violation of logic.”
~Bob McArthur
“We shall not cease from exploration;
And the end of our exploration
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
~T.S. Elliot, “Four Quartets”
“I’m glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, and chiefly because I shall never have to do it again.”
~Mark Twain
“When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her – but, alas, she was waiting for the perfect man.”
~Robert Schuman, French statesman (1886-1963).
“Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music…”
~Kristian Wilson, CEO, Nintendo Gaming Corporation, Inc, 1989