I used to be a waiter, but I was fired for clearing tables. Iwas clearing them for take off. I had them all lined upoutside. People thought it was an outdoor cafe. I said, No,these are leaving at 3. They were going to fire me anyway,because I told them I thought they should put the wrapper on theinside of the straw since that's the part you don't want to getdirty.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Gifford Pinchot

We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

Larry Dixon

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

William Osler

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

George Orwell

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

Sloth is the key to poverty.

Proverb

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Nelson Mandela

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Virginia Satir

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Steven Squyres

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Walt Whitman

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

David Eddings