| "The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth." »Rebecca West |
| "The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat." »Vilhjlmur Stefnsson |
| "Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." »Buddha |
| "It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places." »Latin Proverb |
| "Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it." »John Christian Bovee |
| "You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward." »James Grover Thurber |
| "Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow." »Arthur Stringer |
| "There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week." »Will Rogers |
| "This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this." »Real Live Preacher |
| "Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." »Ambrose Bierce |
| "A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat." »Logan Pearsall Smith |
| "I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity." »M. C. Escher |
| "In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat." »Auguste Renoir |
| "The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win. And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline." »Vince Lombardi |
| "If you had to list the different types of haircuts in order of how warm they kept the head, you'd probably put the flat-top down near the bottom. But you know, I bet it's surprisingly warm." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings." »Jimmy Carter |
| "The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church." »Ferdinand Magellan |
| "We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself." »Jimmy Carter |
| "CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience" »Jeffrey Vlaming |
| "A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'" »Stephen William Hawking |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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