Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
64 lines (62 loc) · 1.69 KB

quotes.md

File metadata and controls

64 lines (62 loc) · 1.69 KB

Quotes

Wit

Isn't air travel wonderful?  Breakfast in London, dinner in New York, luggage in
Brazil.
“These engines are the fastest in any tanks in the European Theater of
Operations, forwards or backwards. You see, man, we like to feel we can get out
of trouble, quicker than we got into it.”
- Oddball as played by Donald Sutherland, Kelly's Heroes
“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope
with is therefore your own problem.”
- Trillian, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Wisdom

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
- James Gleick
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public
relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
- Richard Feynman
“We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably
he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
- Samuel Smiles
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men,
I will find something in them which will hang him."
- Cardinal Richelieu

Inspiration

Everybody needs love and adventure,
Everybody needs cash to spend,
Everybody needs love and affection,
Everybody needs two or three friends
- The Things Dreams Are Made of: Human League
“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually
happened.”
― Mark Twain

Just Makes Me Smile

You don't tug on superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim
- Jim Croce