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"The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures." »Earl Warren
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"The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page." »Neil Postman
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"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"The longer the title, the less important the job." »George Stanley McGovern
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"'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel." »Andr Maurois
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"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness." »Robert Cecil
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"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title." »Virginia Woolf
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"Marriage is like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it." »Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
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"A page of history is worth a pound of logic." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page." »Saint Augustine
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"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." »Augustine, (AD 354-430)
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"A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood." »Mark Ardis
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"Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page." »Joan Baez
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"The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page." »Saint Augustine
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"Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer." »Ayn Rand
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"We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty." »Mark Twain
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"When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page." »Bill Clinton
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"You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." »Paul Sweeney
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"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." »Earl Warren
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"A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" »Mark Twain
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"The good extend their loving care To men, however mean or vile; E?en base Ch?nd?las?* dwellings share Th? impartial sunbeam?s silver smile." »The Hitopadesa
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"Some people, you would think, are made up of nothing but title and genealogy; the stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below them to exercise good nature or good manners." »L?Estrange
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"No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history." »William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
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"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can." »Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
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"It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece." »Burton
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"I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what They never find him. And you know why they never find him It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life." »Andrew Schneider
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"There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics." »Gregory Benford - Timescape
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"What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 322. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree." »Diane Frolov
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