Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

C.S. Lewis, Letters to an Americ

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Aldous Huxley

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

Steve Wozniak

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Nanette Newman

A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.

Samuel Johnson

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

Gene Wilder

BetweenOur birth and death we may touch understandingAs a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Christopher Fry, The Boy with a

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlaying our hard hearts.

Charles Dickens

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.

Edmund Rouse

I just became one with my browser software.

Bill Griffith