Winston Churchill
June 17, 2009
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“It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. ” — Winston Churchill
Juvenal, poet (c. 60-140)
April 16, 2009 
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another. – Juvenal, poet (c. 60-140)
Frank Tibolt
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.” – Frank Tibolt
Thomas R. Buckley, a longtime justice in Dannemora, N.Y.
“I just follow my own common sense. And the hell with the law.” – Thomas R. Buckley, a longtime justice in Dannemora, N.Y.
Wolf-Robe Cree Indian leader
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise we can’t eat money.” – Wolf-Robe Cree Indian leader
Calvin Coolidge
“Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.” – Calvin Coolidge
Movie Quotes
” Why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.”
- Dr. Thomas Wayne, Batman Begins, June 2005
“I’m a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.” -Wash, ‘Serenity’
“If someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill ‘em right back!” – Capt. Malcom Reynolds, Firefly
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, there’s the superhero, and there’s the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When he wakes up in the morning, he’s Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic that Superman stands alone. Superman did not become Superman, Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he’s Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red “S”, that’s the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears, the glasses, the business suit, that’s the costume. That’s the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He’s weak, he’s unsure of himself… he’s a coward. Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the whole human race. Sort of like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plympton.
Bill, from Kill Bill, Volume 2
“I find that when I sit down to think about it, the solution presents itself.” – Dr. Henry Jones, Sr., Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
September 2, 2008
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.” – Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” – Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)
“Men have become the tools of their tools.” – Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
” It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. ” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
” There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.” – Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.” — Henry David Thoreau
Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 – 2001)
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 – 2001)
“In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”
- Douglas Adams, English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 – 2001)
“Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.” – Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001)
“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
- Douglas Adams
