QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, e McArthur, Robin Dunbar, Grooming, Janis G. Chester, Mark Clews, Wilfrid G. Oakley, Paul Claudel, Bill Bryson, Sam Bardell, Henry, William Sidney Porter, Ricki Lee Jones, Stephen Jay Gould, Kevin Ahern.

• Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
  unknown
  
  
• Why is it that raindrops but snowfalls ?
  -e McArthur
  
  

• Resorting to deep-bellied sounds is almost universal across human cultures in situations where we want to create a lasting impression. Successful public speakers do not squeak and warble in falsetto, but lower the pitch of their voice.
  –Robin Dunbar in "Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language"
  
  
• "The joke is that soon you're going to call Domino's pizza and they're going to know that they can't send the extra cheese because you've got high cholesterol"
  Janis G. Chester (teaches psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University>
  
  
• The one who says it cannot be done, should not interupt the one doing it.
  unknown, proverb
  
  
• "If a man say's something and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?"
  -Unknown
  
  
• It was everything I hoped it would be, apart from actually flying.
  –British artist Mark Clews
  Who built a full-sized, rubber band-powered airplane (20-foot wingspan) based on childhood models.
  
  
• These days, a hero is a guy that cares about his family and gets up every
  day and goes to work to support them!
  unknown, but a hero non-the-less
  
  
• Man may be the captain of his fate, but he is also the victim of his blood sugar.
  – Wilfrid G. Oakley
  
  
• Paul Claudel (1868-1955) was a French poet, playwright and diplomat whose work figured prominently in the French Catholic renaissance of the early 20th century. His last words, however, bespeak something more familiar: “Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?”
  
  
• “There was, too, a wonderful simplicity of desire. It was the last time that people would be thrilled to own a toaster or waffle iron.”
  – Bill Bryson
  
  
• A psychiatrist is a man who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks you for nothing.
  – Sam Bardell
  
  
• “Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark.”
  – American writer O. Henry (William Sidney Porter) 1862-1910
  
  
• You never know when you are making a memory.
  – Ricki Lee Jones, singer
  
  
• In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. – Stephen Jay Gould
  
  

• A violation of Sir Isaac was found
  By Megan hurtling fast toward the ground.
  She's not in smithereens
  Because on trampolines
  What goes down, must go up, then go down

  – Kevin Ahern

  
  
  

 

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