It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

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

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

No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir

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

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

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

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

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

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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

"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

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

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett

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

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

The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton