Category: Quotes
Language Lessons
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In Cantonese, the phrase, "could you" is pronounced "neh-ga". The phrase, "could you please" is pronounced "neh-ga please".
- Dana Gould
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To Do List
To Do List (noun): A literal or hypothetical list of people with whom you intend to sleep.
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Schopenhauer: The Emptiness of Existence.
Then again, there is the insatiability of each individual will; every time it is satisfied a new wish is engendered, and there is no end to its eternally insatiable desires.
This is because the Will, taken in itself, is the lord of worlds; since every… more »
FEAR Watermelons
There was a farmer. He had a watermelon patch. Everyday he went to lunch and people stole his watermelons. Then he made a sign that said "Don't steal watermelons. One of these watermelons is poisoned."He went to lunch and when he came back there were n… more »
Writing speed in relation to quality
The quote for today is from Abbott Joseph Liebling:"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."he also said, "People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."… more »
How you will know your friends
Abbott: People are going to say, "There goes that tramp Costello."
Costello: People may say that but my friends will never say that.
Abbott: What will your friends say?
Costello: There goes Mr. Costello, the tramp. more »
A Great Dane
"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die." - Soren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) ( A Great Dane) also: "People understand me so poorly that they don't even… more »
Kierkegaard's Clown
"It happened that a fire broke out backstage at a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was just a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning, they shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid general ap… more »
Yip Harburg
Where bishop Patrick crossed the streetAn X now marks the spot.The light of god was with him,But the traffic light was not.- [[en:Yip Harburg]], lyricist, "Somewhere over the rainbow" "Brother can you spare a dime?"Love thy neighbor as thys… more »
Traditional American view of lies
"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies."
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937) more »
Theodore contra Nietzsche
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."- [[en:Friedrich Nietzsche]]"I've gazed into the abyss and the abyss gazed into me, and nei… more »
George Carlin on dissatisfaction
An artist is always dissatisfied... An artist is always unsatisfied with the work. There's always this vague dissatisfaction that something was left out; you never know when the painting is finished; you never know when the poem is done; right?
- Geor… more »
Carlin's indignations
"The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god -- that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them -- and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species.… more »
An explanation
"We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."
— [[en:Winston Churchill]] more »
Heckle VS Jeckle
From yesterday's Guardian UK, comedy section:
10. Bill Hicks
Audience member to Hicks, never known for his patience with hecklers: "I don't come here to think." Hicks replied: "Well, tell me where you do go and I'll meet you there." more »
Brother Theodore
"On record covers I look like a pile of mud, but that is only because photography is still in its infancy.
I am what you might call a contoversial figure. People either hate me or despise me. People would rather shake the devil by the tail than me by th… more »
Elwood says,
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it."
- Elwood P. Dowd more »
Kurt Vonnegut's work pattern
"I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. 9 to 12 in the morning, 5 to 6 in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours."
-- Ku… more »
Neanderthal Project
The world is safe from Neanderthal clones. Or is it?
In February 2009, the research team, led by geneticist Svante Pääbo, announced that they had completed the first draft of the Neanderthal genome, which covers about 63% of the entire base pairs. New… more »
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