3001) "Care about people, not their opinions of you."-Bruce Heckathorn
3002) "Women remember. Our bodies remember. Every part of us remembers everything that has happened. Every touch, every feel, everything is there in our skin, ready to be awakened, revived."-Mary Morris , Nothing to Declare
3003) "I know that the journey is never what we plan for; it's what happens between the lines."-Mary Morris, Nothing to Declare
3004) "You shouldn't look too long, or you may not even be able to see what it is you are looking for."-Mary Morris, Nothing to Declare
3005) "I understood that growth comes over time. Change happens step by step. All along things had been changing inside of me, bit by bit, in small, imperceptible ways. It had been subtle, not sudden. It had been happening over time."-Mary Morris, Nothing to Declare
3006) "At night I lay in bed, running my hands across my thighs, my belly, my breasts. I was blind to myself. I could not see what others saw; I had no sense of how others saw me. I was disappearing in space. Time also slipped away. I lost track of the days. Every day was Sunday."-Mary Morris, Nothing to Declare
3007) "I'm the kid who has this habit of dreaming/ Sometimes gets me in trouble too/ But the truth is I could no more stop dreaming/ Than I could make them all come true"-Buddy Mondlock, "The Kid"
3008) "Laughter is the closest distance between two people."-Victor Borge
3009) "All decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'"-Ani DiFranco
3010) "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant 1~day."-Alexander Woollcott
3011) "your quotes list gives my sentences something to strive for."-Audrey Beth Stein
3012) "True spirit is loving life and not caring who knows or what they have to say about it."-J. Silgals
3013) "...and here I sit, drowning in my own syntax, as my sentence structure sinks below the ensuing surf. Term paper."-J. Silgals
3014) "We all want love to come along, but we place all these restrictions on how it should come along."-Renee on Ally McBeal
3015) "My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."-Orson Welles
3016) "Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection."-Judge Lowell A. Reed
3017) "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."-Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
3018) "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."-Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
3019) "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."-Editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
3020) "But what ... is it good for?"-Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip
3021) "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."-Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
3022) "640K ought to be enough for anybody."-Bill Gates, 1981
3023) "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."-Western Union internal memo, 1876
3024) "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"-David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s
3025) "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."-A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
3026) "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"-H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
3027) "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."-Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in Gone With The Wind
3028) "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."-Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies
3029 "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."-Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
3030) "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."-Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895
3031) "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."-Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads
3032) "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"-Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer
3033) "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."-1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work
3034) "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training."-Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus
3035) "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."-Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859
3036) "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."-Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929
3037) "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."-Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superie ure de Guerre
3038) "Everything that can be invented has been invented."-Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
3039) "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."-Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
3040) "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon."-Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon
3041) "When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event."-Robert M. Pirsig
3042)" Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."-Robert Louis Stevenson
3043) "Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."-Napoleon I
3044) "The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or those who never allow us to kiss them (we soon forget them), but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes."-Alain de Botton
3045) "Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply *being* hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself."-Alain de Botton
3046) "One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy."-Alain de Botton
3047) "Life gives us no such handy markers -- a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while."-Alain de Botton
3048) "We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease."-Alain de Botton
3049) "I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry, because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?"
3050) "How can the life of such a man/ Be in the palm of some fool's hand?/ To see him obviously framed/ Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land/ Where justice is a game."-Bob Dylan, "Hurricane"
3051) "Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle."-Claude Monet
3052) "I ask them to take a poem/ and hold it up to the light/ like a color slide/ or press an ear against its hive./ I say drop a mouse into a poem/ and watch him probe his way out,/ or walk inside the poem's room/ and feel the walls for a light switch./ I want them to waterski/ across the surface of a poem/ waving at the author's name on the shore./ But all they want to do/ is tie the poem to a chair with rope/ and torture a confession out of it./ They begin beating it with a hose/ to find out what it really means."-Billy Collins, "Introduction To Poetry"
3053) "To ArRAYLyn, With Lo?ve--But words/ trickle and/ trick le/ sser men than me/ into/ be/ leaving/ that they are in love./ But your eyes are so beautiful/ And your sweetness so/ (never seen BLUE)/ Sweet./ And tonight, when/ I could find no greater/ Come Fort/ (for sore legs and miles-gone heart)/ than a hot shower/ and Thinking of you./ So I did. And/ never/ been so happy./ And yes./ I lo?ve you."-Doug Smeath
3054) "Fate has a way of working stuff out for us in ways that may seem bad at the time, but end up being really good for us in the long run -so when a door closes in your face, look around for an open window before you get uspet about it - you may actually end up happy."-MMMorgano1@aol.com
3055) "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth."-Benjamin Disraeli
3056) "Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."-Heraclitus
3057) "Jesus only told half the story. The truth will set you free. But first, it's going to piss you off."-Solomon Short
3058) "The purpose of life is a life of purpose."-Robert Byrne
3059) "...the more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3060) "What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3061) "I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things..."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3062) "The moment you label something, you take a step--I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3063) "People sometimes say the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television--you don't feel anything."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3063) "What the philosophers have to say about reality is often as disappointing as a sign you see in a shop window, which reads Pressing Done Here. If you brought your clothes in to be pressed, you would be fooled: for the sign is only for sale."-Soren Kierkegaard
3064) "Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3065) "...after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3066) "I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3067) "Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3068) "The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel--you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3069) "Everybody has problems, but the thing is to not make a problem about your Problem. For example, if you have no money and you worry about it all the time, youll get an ulcer and have a real problem and you still won't have any money because people sense when you're desperate and nobody wants anything to do with a desperate person. But if you don't care about having no money, then people will give you money because you don't care and they'll think it's nothing and give it away--make you take it. But if you have a problem about having no money and taking money and think you can't take it and get guilty and want to be independent, then it's a problem. Whereas if you just take the money and act spoiled and spend it like it's nothing, then it's not a problem and people keep wanting to give you more."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3070) "That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries--you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3071) "What I've always wished I'd invented was paper underwear, even knowing that the idea never took off when they did come out with it. I still think it's a good idea, and I don't know why people resist it when they've accepted paper napkins and paper plates and paper curtains and paper towels--it would make more sense not to have to wash out underwear than not to have to wash out towels."-Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
3072) "Quod me nutrit me destruit." (What nurishes me destroys me.)
3073) "Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3074) "To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him."-Guy de Maupassant
3075) "I don't have pet peeves; I have major fucking psychotic hatreds, okay? And it makes the world a lot easier to sort out."-George Carlin
3076) "The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."-Gloria Steinem
3077) "I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."-Martha Washington
3078) "To be able to find joy in another's joy: that is the secret of happiness."-Georges Bernanos
3079) "Ted the Cow has been watching TV all afternoon. A McDonald's ad comes on. Ted realizes he is hungry. He gets in his car and drives to McDonald's. Two Big Macs and some fries, he says to the drive-thru speaker. At the pickup window the guy gives him his sack. Oh man, the guy says, you're a cow. How can you be eating burgers? When in Rome, man says Ted the Cow. That's disgusting, says the guy. Ted drives off and eats his Big Macs. People have gotten all sensitive, he says. He drives to a T-shirt store and gets a shirt that says They Eat Their Own. Then Ted is thirsty, so he gets some pop."-Dan Bern, Ted the Cow
3080) "Gay shlafen: Yiddish for go to sleep. Now doesn't gay shlafen have a softer, more soothing sound than the harsh, staccato go to sleep? Listen to the difference: Go to sleep, you little wretch! ... Gay shlafen, darling. Obvious, isn't it? Clearly the best thing you can do for your children is to start speaking Yiddish right now and never speak another word of English as long as you live. This will, of course, entail teaching Yiddish to all your friends, business associates, the people at the supermarket, and so on, but that's just the point. It has to start with committed individuals and then grow ... Some minor adjustments will have to be made, of course: those signs written in what look like Yiddish letters won't be funny when everything is written in Yiddish. And we'll have to start driving on the left side of the road so we won't be reading the street signs backwards. But is that too high a price to pay for world peace? I think not, my friend, I think not."-Arthur Naiman
3081) "I don't believe in astrology. But then I'm an Aquarius, and Aquarians don't believe in astrology."-James R. F. Quirk
3082) "Remember to never split an infinitive. The passive voice should never be used. Do not put statements in the negative form. Verbs have to agree with their subjects. Proofread carefully to see if you words out. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. A writer must not shift your point of view. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. (Remember, too, a preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with.) Don't overuse exclamation marks!! Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to their antecedents. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing. Always pick on the correct idiom. The adverb always follows the verb. Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague; seek viable alternatives."-William Safire
3083) "I have learned that it is better to protect that which is most precious to me rather than having someone belittle it. I know that doing so doesn't help break the silence, but sometimes I must put myself and my needs ahead of others."-Andrew Byala
3084) "Your memory is a monster; you forget--it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you--and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!"-John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
3085) "Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to."-John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
3086) "It's a no-win argument--that business of what were born with and what our environment does to us. And its a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend to both our birth and our growth."-John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
3087) "...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar--you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace."-John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
3088) "Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness."-John Irving, A Prayer For Owen Meany
3089) "...it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. Pay attention to your dreams: when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after youve come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the unconscious."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
3090) "It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
3091) "God, why does a mortal man have childen? It is senseless to love anything this much."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
3092) "Her breath expanded her chest against my arms, and I thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
3093) "In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a great height."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
3094) "All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
3095) "Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to good use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
3096) "Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
3097) "The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people."-Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King
3098) "Ultimately, the bond of companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation."-Oscar Wilde
3099) "The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before."-Erica Jong
3100) "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between notes and curl my back to loneliness."-Maya Angelou