October 2004 Quotes

 

Now I'm standing at this empty road, where nothing moves but the wind.

- Bruce Springsteen - Back in your arms

 

I like my women, like my wine: Red and full of alcohol.

- Fez. That 70's show.

 

 

(On the impact of having humans on the earth ..)

I mention all of this to make the point that if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose a human being for the job.

 

But here's an extremely salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

- Bill Bryson - A Short History Of Nearly Everything.

 

 

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

- William James

 

Deliver me, out of my sadness

Deliver me, from all the madness

Deliver me, courage to guide me

Deliver me, strength from inside me

- Sarah Brightman - Deliver me.

 

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill.

 

Thought for the day

When you feel that nobody loves you

Nobody cares for you

And everyone is ignoring you

You should start asking yourself........

Am I TOO sexy?

 

Bruce Wayne: A guy dresses up like a bat clearly has issues.

- Batman Begins.

 

Marge: Okay, Kids, give me your letters and I'll mail them to Santa at the North Pole.
Bart: Oh please, there's only one fat guy who brings us presents and his name ain't Santa.