In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.

Josef Pieper

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, This is my Country.

Benjamin Franklin

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

C. O. Jackson

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.

Joshua Foer

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Kurt Cobain

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

C.S. Lewis

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Jeffery J. Mayer

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Alan Perlis

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

Yvon Chouinard