The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.
Franklin P. Jones
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.
Dr. Frank Crane
People may say I can’t sing, but no one can ever say I didn’t sing.
Florence Foster Jenkins
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Ronald Reagan
Monkeys go to the jungle.
Pirahã Tribesman, translated by Dan Everett, from the article The Interpreter, The New Yorker magazine, written by John Colapinto
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. – “Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.” – Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.
Lolly Daskal
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun
The balloon, to be sure, went up; but what is a balloon without a pony?
Morning Chronicle, August 16, 1828
One ant is no ant.
E. O. Wilson
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