Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04 Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04 The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them. Tom Morris Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell US general (1937 - ) Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. Hyman Rickover US (Polish-born) admiral (1900 - 1986) Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. Don Wood Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. Mark Twain, quoted in Mark Twain and I, Opie Read, 1940 US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. Mark Twain, Mark Twain In Eruption US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. Mark Twain, Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907 US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory British juvenile author (1916 - 1990) |