tragically unhip | quotes

"i've used up all my sick days so i'm calling in dead." {Tom and Ray, Cartalk }

"the price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." {Henry David Thoreau}

"Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail." {ELIOT SPITZER, New York state attorney general}

"i haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still i keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case i should ever figure it out. " {David Sedaris}

"The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge." {Annie Dillard}

"what other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?" {Gore Vidal}

"character develops itself in the stream of life." {Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}

great minds discuss ideas. average minds discuss events. small minds discuss people. {Eleanor Roosevelt}

"we cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." {Calvin Coolidge}

"i have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution." {Wernher von Braun}

"contemplation often makes life miserable. we should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live." {Nicolas Chamfort}

"if we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. we'd never have a friendship. we'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. well, that's nonsense. you've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." {Annie Dillard}

"i get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one hell of a good time. sometimes this makes planning the day difficult." {E.B. White}

"and what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?" {Anita Loos}

"when you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. it is an impossibility. it is even a lie to pretend to. and yet this is exactly what most of us demand." {Anne Morrow Lindbergh}

"talk doesn't cook rice." {Chinese proverb}

"each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be." {albert einstein}

"if you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun!" {Katherine Hepburn}

"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." {Elizabeth Taylor}

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." {Niels Bohr}