The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow

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---- Steve Dembo

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III