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I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, 'Tadpoles Tadpoles is a winner' We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do.

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

– Author Unknown

Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

– Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Elaine Dickinson There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane

– Airplane

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us

– Orison Swett Marden

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board

– Mark Twain

I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad.

– Alfred North Whitehead

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it.

– Fred Allen

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question.

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

– Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

– Zora Neale Hurston

Start cutting corners on whatever it is you do and those corners will seek to get even with you sooner or later

– Ahmed Korayem

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

– Virginia

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time.

– J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

– Thomas Huxley

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

– Steve Jobs

The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

– Edward R. Murrow

The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed.

– Zalman Stern

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

– Jonathan Swift

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.

– George Burns

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

– George Burns

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.

– George Bernard Shaw

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